How old do you plan or want to live to?

[NNN0LHI]

My wife and I were discussing this yesterday and I discovered that we are of the same feeling on this. We would both like to live well until our 80's or 90's if we can keep our minds and health until then. But her and I both said that if we were to die tomorrow we would feel like we have gotten our moneys worth out of life already. Much more than our moneys worth. Just being together has been a dream come true for me. I have no regrets or misgivings that I missed out on anything. Because I didn't. Sure there are things that I wished we could have afforded to do, vacations and such, but nothing I am going to lose sleep over. Just having a great wife and two wonderful daughters and now two wonderful grandsons is about all a guy could ask for. My wife and I are now in our mid-fifties.

What is your perspective on this subject?

Don

[H2O Man]

1. 104.97

I have informed my wife that I plan to die shortly before turning 105. And I am serious.

[NNN0LHI]

2. I hope you make it

Seriously.

I like that attitude.

Don

[H2O Man]

14. Thanks.

I try not to be rigid, but I plan ahead and make lists of things that I want to experience, and to accomplish. I also factor in the measure of years of various family members. I expect to make it. I will not be too disappointed if I die at, say, 102 or 103.

[libodem]

3. 'til I can't

Wipe my own butt.

[Xithras]

4. I'm cool with forever...

...but only if I can get a spaceship and spend it blasting around the galaxy.

But, failing that, I plan on living as long as possible, so long as my body still allows me to accomplish the things I want. I don't see the point of hanging on if I'm stuck in a convalescent hospital or bedridden. I'm the kind of guy who plans on spending his 100th birthday summiting a mountain :)

[dmallind]

5. I'd settle for 45, but in general I'd say a bit less than you

Looks like I will miss my pre-IPF goal of outliving Jim Fixx ;) Were I still looking at an open lifespan I'd probably say that most people lose more than I would like to by 80 or so. Exceptions of course exist but I have no (hypothetical) desire to be a helpless pain-wracked mind-wandering nursing home victim.

[MADem]

6. I wanna live forever! I wanna learn how to fly!

I'm not done yet. I don't think I ever will be. I enjoy life, I learn something new every day, and I like that. I also enjoy my family, friends, animals, and life in general. I try to do good deeds as often as I can manage, because they make ME feel good (selfish, yes, I admit it).

I try to live each day as if my days are numbered, because they are--I just don't have the Grand Total for a reference.

[Swede]

7. As long as I have my health,I guess.

My grama died at 102,she was healthy til the end.

[Bosonic]

8. Indefinitely, or die trying

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. Everyone dies....not everyone lives.

If I went tomorrow I would be OK with it because I have had a good life up to this point. Married 36 years with two good kids, started a business that actually made a difference, still play in a rock band and have done just about everything except jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I can still eat what I want and just hang with the dogs.
Don't have a bunch of money but that never brought me anything that really mattered.
I'd like to ride this wave as long as I can stay on it.

[eShirl]

10. I'll tell you one thing, in her last years my grandmother wondered why she was still around.

She lived a few years past 100. She would say, I've lived a good long life, married, raised children,have grandchildren and great-grandchildren, seen the years and decades go by. I'm satisfied. I can't figure out what I'm still here for?

[DefenseLawyer]

11. I'm working on today

If that works out I'm focusing on tomorrow

[Fumesucker]

12. I'm already about twenty years past where I expected to get when I was a young adult..

So anything else is gravy.

[krucial]

13. Plan to live

I want to live, till i die,they're gonna say what a guy I'm gonna play for the sky Ain't gonna miss a thing,gonna have my fling I'm gonna live live live until I die.


Those blues I lay low,i'll make them stay low

They'll never trail over my head I'll be a devil till I'm an angel But until then hallelujah

Gonna dance gonna fly I'll take my chance riding high

Before my numbers up I'm gonna fill my cup

I'm gonna live, live, live, live until I die

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[Newest Reality]

15. I can appreciate your

acceptance and gratitude for what you have had and are now.

As for me, I only have now. Being in the same age group and being in relative solitude, and having had a life with a spectrum of experiences, this is enough. With all the change that constantly goes on I have grown to have less of an idea or preference for what may or may not happen.

Poverty becomes easy to bear when it teaches letting go. When your family is no longer, that can be liberating when you understand that what is temporary comes and goes, what was experienced was what mattered.

In this economic desert, one has the opportunity to wake-up as a modern Bedouin, wandering if needs be, where the wind blows.

[Obamanaut]

16. I am 69. Recently did one of those internet 'predict your lifespan' questionaires,

and it gave me an answer of 102, based on the answers I submitted re health, history, exercise, etc.

So 102 is my goal.

[RebelOne]

32. I did one of those Internet lifespan questionnaires.

And according to the results, I should have been dead 10 years ago. I am 72 now and expect to make it to 82.

[Obamanaut]

37. That made me smile. I am gonna keep my 102 goal. My behavior in

my early 20's was such that I was surprised when I made it to my early 30's.

And look at me now. Miz O married me and caused some drastic behavior modification. After 43 years, she says it is still a work in progress.

[iscooterliberally]

17. I want to make it to 700, in dog years.

Actually as long as I'm healthy and able to get around. My wife and I are late 40s now. I pretty much feel the same way that you do. I don't have much money to show for my travels, but I sure did travel quite a bit. I realize now that having your health, and giving yourself something to look forward to every year is key. You don't have to spend a whole lot of money to have fun. It's the small simple daily pleasures that make life worth living.

[GliderGuider]

18. I want to live until my partner dies. She says the same thing.

I'm 60. The universe has smiled on me, and showered me with abundance my whole life, but the last year and a half have surpassed every dream I ever had about what a "good life" could be like.

If I live for another 50 years that would be fine with me. If my partner were to die tomorrow I wouldn't care if I died the day after.

Bodhi

[CrispyQ]

42. Winnie the Pooh

"If you live to be 100, then I want to live to be 100 minus one day, because I never want to live a day without you."

[The Straight Story]

19. One more day than my enemies, so that I can party

:)

[bikebloke]

20. 120

Though realistically, 100+, which I've have the genetics for. Unless I die first. :shrug:

[Peter1x9]

21. 55

I've seen enough old people laying there just suffering for months (or years in a few cases) to know that I don't want the same thing.

[cwydro]

27. You must be very young

to think that 55 is old.

And only chickens "lay".;-)

[Codeine]

52. Oh good lord.

55 isn't even vaguely old.

[JuniperLea]

22. 99.75

The age my great-grandmother attained. Don't want to go as far as her brother... my great-uncle lived to be 111.

[HereSince1628]

23. Planning doesn't always make a difference...

although you can plan to make a difference.

I plan to go just about as long as my CABGs last.

[HockeyMom]

24. I am not afraid to die

At 63 it could be tomorrow for all I know. I am at peace with that. Religion, BTW, has nothing to do with it. I can say that I am comfortable with everything I have set out to do in life. Are there things that I would still like to do, or see happen in this world/cournty? Sure. But I am also comfortable with handing that over to the younger generation, who I do feel are quite capable of taking over the reins.

On Edit: This has nothing to do with being financially successful. I have raised two wonderful children who care about others and will fight for their rights. They are good Democrats, despite their father. I hope that I have made a difference in the lives of the special needs kids and adults I have worked with. No amount of money could EVER compenstate for that. My memories of all of these "Special People" would be enough to last a lasttime. While I may be poor in dollars, I am very rich in "people".:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. I wanted to live my husband's lifetime, minus one day...

He made that impossible. I want to live long enough to see my children grow up. That's it.

[RevStPatrick]

26. I plan to live to be 88...

...like the keys on a piano keyboard.
I also plan on killing myself sometime after my 88th birthday.
Actually, I'm looking forward to it!
I won't need to live any longer than that...

[RebelOne]

28. Well, I am already 72 and I plan to live at least another 10 to 15 years.

I am a female and all the females on my mother's side of the family have all lived into their 80s.

[Lyric]

29. I don't even care anymore.

It's not like I'm going to know if I met my "goal" or not. Death is coming for us all. I'd rather live as well as I can in the years that I have than to live stingy, deprived and unhappy for an extra decade. My life is not so wonderful that I'm mourning the idea of losing it, you know?

:shrug:

Edit: I'm 32.

[slackmaster]

30. I plan to out-live all of my enemies, and watch their women and children age badly

:nuke:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. As long as my health and brain hold out

not any longer. I've seen three relatives go through long, slow declines in the past 10 years, and I much prefer what happened to a woman in my church: As a lively, involved 86-year-old, she was diagnosed with cancer, refused all treatment, and died five weeks later. Or a family friend who was lively and healthy till one day, when she had just turned 102, the mailman found her dead in her garden.

[CrispyQ]

46. Wow, regarding your friend who died in the garden, what a way to go.

Really - doing something she loved. In your sleep would be the second best.

There was a scene in a movie where the bad guy asked the girl if she wanted to die quickly or slowly & she said slowly so she could savor every possible moment of life. Hmmmmm, knowing what he had in store for her, I'm not sure I would have looked at it that way.

[Bunny]

33. My paternal grandmother lived to age 75, and had all her

physical and mental faculties almost right up until the end. OTOH, my maternal grandma lived to 93, she was physically healthy but completely senile for the last ten years of her life. I think I'd rather go the way of my paternal grandma, if I had the choice. 75 is kinda young, but I really don't want to end up like my other grandma did.

[Logical]

34. I'll take a healthy 75 over a frail 85

[Arkansas Granny]

35. Many of my ancestors lived to be in their 90's. For the most part, they

kept their minds and most died suddenly without a long illness. I think they just wore out.

The good times in my life far exceed the bad. I have 4 great kids, 5 grandkids and 3 great grandkids. They are all bright and healthy (and beautiful or handsome, if you want my opinion). If I had the chance, there are some things I'd do differently, but that's not happening so I'm not going to worry about it.

A line from a song by Stephen Stills pretty much sums it up for me: "It's no matter, no distance, it's the ride."

My ride through life, so far, has been a good one.

[laundry_queen]

36. I'm shooting for 100

I'm 36 and my first grandparent, my grandmother died on me 3 yrs ago at the age of 85 after years of working herself to death (raised 8 kids on a farm with no running water, electricity, etc). So far out of my grandparents she was the youngest to die. My other grandmother is now 87 and looks like she's 60. She's extremely healthy, walks many miles/day.

This past winter, my grandfather died at the age of 97. He was obese in his youth, smoked since he was 11 (non-filter - he smoked those for 86 yrs) and was an alcoholic till the last 20 yrs. He had pulmonary embolisms, blood clots, heart attacks and yearly pneumonia and COPD (he was on oxygen the last 20 years or so). He had his mind until the last few months where he would go into a trance like state and talk like he was transported to another time, then snap out of it and say, "Goddamn it, I'm so stupid now! Why do I say things like that? So stupid!" It frustrated him since generally he was VERY sharp. I think it was more a lack of oxygen than dementia. One day he just stopped breathing. We always wondered how long he would have lived had he taken care of himself. His younger brothers are in their late 80's and look like they are in their 60's.

My other grandfather is still alive at 102. He broke his hip a couple of years ago but is fine now. He still mostly has his mind. His brothers all lived until the low 100's.

All my aunts and uncles on both sides have their health, some are in their mid-60's. On my dad's side everyone looks ridiculously young for their ages. My dad still has mostly dark hair at 59. I have only a couple of grey hairs, I don't have to dye yet. My 86 yr old grandmother is just now starting to have more grey than black.

I just hope, with my genetics that I will live to 100. I read somewhere that just by cross-breeding the offspring of the fruit flies with the longest life spans, they were able to extend life expectancy by 25%. Seeing as I have longevity on both sides, I'm hoping I've got those longevity genes.

[Karenina]

38. Hmm...

[Throd]

39. 109

[Sky Masterson]

40. I want to live forever.

In this life and not in a bullshit fantasy nonexistent afterlife.

[Spike89]

41. I'd like to catch the escalator and go a long ways

Basically I'd like to hang on as long as I can, and can remember why I want to. We are possibly on the thresh hold of what some term the immortality escalator. You don't need a "cure" for old age before you get old, you just need an extension until the next extension leads to that point. So, if they find out how to extend health and life say to 120 (from say 90 now) that will give you an extra 30 years for them to figure out how to extend lifespans to 160, which gives you...

I don't know if old age wears you down or if it is the years themselves, but I'd like to be able to find out.

[csziggy]

43. Days when I don't hurt so much I want to live at least as long as my parents

Since Mom is now 90 and Dad 88, there is no telling how old that will be.

Mom can already wear me out, though so I am not sure if I will last the 30 years to catch up to where they are now. But Dad is still hanging in there, even with his health problems, so I have hope I can get to my late 80s at least.

I am pretty sure that I will outlast my husband and friends. None of them have the genes for longevity I seem to have inherited. Good thing I am OK with being solitary since that is how I expect to live out my old age.

I'll probably be one of those little old women found dead in their home days, weeks or months after they've died because no one noticed they were no longer around.

[Blue_In_AK]

44. 93.

Two psychics and a lifestyle longevity projection tell me so.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

45. One of my favorite quotes: "Live as long as you wish, and love as long as live."

Lazurous Long in Heinlein's "Time enough for love"

[Courtesy Flush]

47. My will to live has diminished in recent years

My wife has a terminal illness. Before her diagnosis, I never realized how much my happiness is tied to our future together. If I'm going to lose her, I don't see what I need to keep living for.

But for now she's doing very well, and I have a reason to live.

I know this post sounds like I' really depressed, but I'm not. I'm living a pretty good life, and my wife and I enjoy ourselves, but I don't look forward to what lies ahead.

[NeedleCast]

48. I Am Immortal

So far, this has been disproved zero times.

[otohara]

49. I Fear Old Age

I have post-polio-syndrome, getting weaker and more pain each day.
No one in my family lives very long, my dad died at 49, sister 59, mother 69.
I want to out live them, but not by much.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

50. Long enough to see how the story ends.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. Mark Twain

[randome]

53. Unfortunately, the story never ends.

Nor would we want it to.

[SidDithers]

51. I don't know. But when I do die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep...

not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Thank you Jack Handey.

Sid

[Codeine]

54. I have absolutely no intention of participating in that whole "death" bullshit.

Honestly, so long as I have my mental faculties I don't ever want to die. My base goal is 90 at a minimum, so I eat a vegan diet, maintain a healthy weight, and exercise regularly. Never smoked, never drank, avoided drugs, etc.

Having said all that I'll probably get hit by a train tomorrow.

[randome]

56. It's a common failing of stories dealing with immortality...

...that depict immortals as bored or insane because of their long lives.

Wiping the bulk of your memories every few millenia is a good way to maintain a fresh perspective.

I, too, have no intention of participating in 'death'.

I'll be first in line for a cybernetic body when it's available and when I absolutely need to.

[PassingFair]

55. Who wants to live forever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENboiRLuXfk


Sung by children.

:cry:

[jorno67]

57. I don't have a specific age but I do have a goal in mind

This may sound overly simple but I want to live long enough to be a grandpa, but I also want to live long enough to have my future grandchildren know me and remember me after I'm gone. I am 43 right now and my kids are 12, 11, and 7. So I am hoping for another 30 years give or take...

[backtoblue]

58. not spending my last dime to rot in a nursing home.

nt

[ashling]

59. Same here.

My wife and I have said we want to go together.