I was reading an article that said people have a 1-5% chance of reaching 100 years old.
30 years ago, people were predicting that 50% of newborns would reach age 100 and some may reach 150. (that's not happening)
My question to you is - how old do you want to live to?
Do you want to live to 100 or longer?
Is 80 good enough?
50?
Middle Aged wrote:
I was reading an article that said people have a 1-5% chance of reaching 100 years old.
30 years ago, people were predicting that 50% of newborns would reach age 100 and some may reach 150. (that's not happening)
My question to you is - how old do you want to live to?
Do you want to live to 100 or longer?
Is 80 good enough?
50?
Im 56, my father is a very healthy and active 80 year old. He doesn't take many if any medications, he's never had surgery, he's very together mentally. I am hoping that I mirror his move into old age.
If I make it to 80+ but I can just die fast like a massive heart attack/brain aneurism or something like that, I'm good.
put it this way, I want to die just before I....
forget my mother's name
can't hear music anymore
can't wipe my own arse
80-85. I figure stuff will be wild to me then so check me out. That's 2050 or so.
Millennial folks will still be renting.
If Trump wins, as soon after Nov. 5th, 2024 as possible.
As old as I can get without extreme degradation in quality of life. If that's 100 years old and I've got good friends in a nursing home and can read a good book, then fine.
I want to live digitally on the Internet.
There are humans alive now who will make it beyond 2100... Incredible.
If I could have reasonable health, even if not eternal youth, I’d live forever if I could. I was born in 1963 so I’d be happy to make it to 2050 while still mentally “there” — I’d have memories from all the decades as in, I have memories of “the 60s,” “the 70s,” (etc) all the way to “the 50s,” once that term comes to signify the 2050s instead of the 1950s. I won’t be greedy and ask to live to 100, but getting through a full cycle of numbered decades would be a solid life.
I think I can find things that are engaging and interesting for five more years, maybe seven?
I can’t imagine being so infatuated with Earth, that I’d want to re-up for one more five to seven year block.
At some point, ppl who are clicking off the years are probably just being a good sport about it.
I don’t view anything particularly bad being in one’s 60s, 70s or 80s, assuming a person is pain-free and healthy, but it would feel like going to Chechnya to check it out, and not wanting a delayed flight home.
jimmy carter fan wrote:
put it this way, I want to die just before I....
forget my mother's name
can't hear music anymore
can't wipe my own arse
...and just before I lose interest in sex. 😆
Teddie wrote:
If Trump wins, as soon after Nov. 5th, 2024 as possible.
Die quickly!
90-95 would be ok as long as I don't have Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Dementia, Cancer, or anything else that makes it so I can't function independently.
I want my brain to be cryogenically frozen or preserved if possible or immediately inserted into a machine to simulate life so I can be immortal