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Bertha Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 02:27 PM Original message |
When my dad died this year when his plane crashed . . . |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. 68 is elderly? |
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Bertha Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 02:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I know, right?! |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. Elderly doesn't imply decrepitute. |
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Tektonik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
4. 68 is elderly |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-24-08 11:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. i thought elderly was age 70 or older |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-24-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Close enough. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. My husband just turned 68; he skis; lifts weights. But he also gets Medicare. He's elderly. |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. Well someone in LBN was sayin 25-35 year olds were middle-aged. |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 06:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. If 25-35 years olds are middle-aged, I guess I'm elderly at age 42. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-24-08 11:11 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. that poster acknowledged she had a mental illness |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-24-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Well...I'm not the one who said that "active people stay young" - |
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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
7. my uncle is around 58 and he's less elderly than I am at 33, lol |
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malta blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
8. my stepdad is 77 and in better shape than I am. |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. My 65 yo hubby will collect his first social security check next month |
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Genevieve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
10. Male life expectancy in the U.S. is 75.2 |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
12. Remember that "elderly" is a designation of age only, not fitness, vitality, or ability. |
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Bertha Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-24-08 07:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Yeah... you, and LeftyMom, and Genevieve have pointed out |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-23-08 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
13. The AP Stylebook sez: |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-24-08 03:40 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Good find! |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-24-08 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
18. That is a little odd. Elderly to me is 75+. |
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Tektonik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-24-08 12:34 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Well 75 is the average life expectancy of American males (80 for females) |
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atmeratus_x (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-24-08 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
21. I'm 62... |
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