How long do you want to live?
Discussion
croyde said:
glenrobbo said:
Skyedriver said:
So very true. If only I had an expiry date it would help enormously.
Here ya go!
https://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/deat...
So, with 14 years left, I can safely chuck in my job and live ok on my savings.
Thanks for that, it's so liberating
Got a new passport last year. Do wonder if I'll be around to apply for the next one.
Edited by croyde on Sunday 7th April 08:03
Jader1973 said:
I’m reading “Rambling Man” by Billy Connolly at the moment.
In one bit he makes a good point: people will say that if you don’t do something (e.g. smoking / bad diet) you’ll live longer, but you don’t get the extra time when you’re 30 and can enjoy it, you get it when you’re too old to do any thing with it.
This is what i was going to say!, so happy to get to 80ish , but if the body and mind are still willing then I look forward to becoming Victor Meldrew 😜 In one bit he makes a good point: people will say that if you don’t do something (e.g. smoking / bad diet) you’ll live longer, but you don’t get the extra time when you’re 30 and can enjoy it, you get it when you’re too old to do any thing with it.
Nethybridge said:
It's obvious in this cesspool of barbaric heathenism that
no-one takes their death and its consequences at all seriously.
Only God chooses the place and time, everything is
predestined. whether in an air crash or
tripping over the cat and falling
down the stairs,
get used to
it unbelievers.
no-one takes their death and its consequences at all seriously.
Only God chooses the place and time, everything is
predestined. whether in an air crash or
tripping over the cat and falling
down the stairs,
get used to
it unbelievers.
"The future is not set. There is no fate, but what we make for ourselves". 
One of clients came into work the other week and I don't what age he was but I mean poor guy, ages catches with everyone and certainly I am not a spring chicken anymore or anyone's idea of an oil painting but...
You know the film Beetlejuice? He looked like the big game hunter in the afterlife's waiting room with the shrunken head.
I couldn't bear to look at myself in the mirror if start turning into that. I'll be in a quiet wood with a packet of tablets.
You know the film Beetlejuice? He looked like the big game hunter in the afterlife's waiting room with the shrunken head.
I couldn't bear to look at myself in the mirror if start turning into that. I'll be in a quiet wood with a packet of tablets.
AW111 said:
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Regarding dementia etc. - it's tragic from the outside, when they don't remember you etc. But is it tragic to the patient if they are not distressed by it?
My mother had dementia. She was doubly incontinent. Needed constant carers - which she hated. She'd ask where my dad was (he'd died 20 years before). You could see the condition distressed her. In her lucid moments (which became less and less frequent) she'd say "I just want to die". Regarding dementia etc. - it's tragic from the outside, when they don't remember you etc. But is it tragic to the patient if they are not distressed by it?
So, yes, I'd say it's tragic for the patient.
AndyAudi said:
My grandparents had no dogs for about 20years , then randomly got a Jack Russell pup in their 70’s which lived with them for next 15years - they both outlived it & that dog was a fantastic companion to them both & it got my grandfather out of the house every day. They also took two litters of pups of her too (they never really slowed down, age can just be a number don’t let it rule you)
The flip side to pets, especially dogs is that the elderly get so attached to them that when they die it hits them like the death of a close family member and they never get over it/almost give up on life.glenrobbo said:
Monkeylegend said:
I just did that and I am going to die in 2022, I kid you not.
Who said that??? 
That was based on leading a pessimistic lifestyle, ticked just out of interest to see the effect.
When I ticked sadistic I died in 1999.
Blib said:
I'm gonna live forever. I'm gonna learn how to fly.
You've missed a word from the end of that line of Irene Cara's song: 'high' (after 'fly').Sadly, Irene's lyric didn't come true for her (except, perhaps, she did put in those lyrics 'I'm gonna make it to heaven' - who knows?).
She died aged just 63.
lord trumpton said:
about 70 will do me
Im thinking thats about right for me, my dad went at 72. He woke up one sunny morning in the south of Spain, took his dog for a walk along the beach to the marina. Got a coffee and a paper, wondered back to his motorhome and dropped dead. As a last day/morning on earth, thats a pretty good way to go.
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