How old would you like to live to?

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I know a gentleman that has reached the age of 102 ,

Lives in his own home,cooks his own meals,walks down to the local tavern on

A Friday afternoon for a beer or three , How old would you like to live to,?

I would like to make 90
 
Old enough to get done what I ought, but not old enough to see it unravel.
 
I am going to live until I am 113 and I tell hubby he has to live to be 114 we will go together 🙂
 
I’m more concerned about whether the time I get will do my soul good than how much of it I get before I die.
 
I’ve seen enough people kept alive by modern medicine to be terrified of what doctors and hospitals are capable of. All I ask of dying is I want to go naturally. Ok maybe go naturally and live to 80, so I guess that is two things I ask of dying.
 
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22 ?      Nah,,,,,come on,,,,and miss all this ?
It’s all just to interesting,
 
  1. I have this chronic illness which has considerably reduced my life expectancy.It can actually kill me at any moment.I am even lucky to be 25 now as many with this illness die before 20 from where I come from.Honestly,if i attain 55…it means I’m lucky. lol.If I get to 62,then …well…i cant ask more from God.🙂
 
90 would be nice, but only if I’m mentally with it and not suffering any kind of horrible chronic pain.

Quality of life is better than quantity I think.
 
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Nemm said:
I think heaven would be far more interesting 🙂
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Life is no joyful bed of roses,was never really men’t to be,
It all depends on your own viewpoint of life, you can see life as a challenge , and accept that challenge and physically make something of it, or, you can stay in bed, telling the world your to lazy and just can’t be bothered ,
But much depends on health, etc
 
I will live for as long as God wants, but my preference is to live only until I lose control of my mind or my bowels, whichever comes first.
I have visions of a row of old women with restless legs strapped to their chairs making electricity for their tv with their leg movements attached to a nifty generator. Fed at four to save money on a night shift, given bags to avoid accidents and to save on laundry.
No, I want to go out with my boots on.
 
E_7 said:
I don’t dare to say nor think about it :crying:
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That’s kind of where I am. I’m young and if I had to answer honestly right now I want to live forever because I’m really scared of death. I know that I don’t need to be, and I have faith, but that primal fear is very much present for me. (I also had very little exposure to death growing up.)

From what I understand, though, as I get older that will go away. My grandparents just reached their 80s. I am blessed that all four of them are still living and have good health. But they have begun speaking very, very openly about their deaths and the aftermath. They could have 20+ years left, but they want to make sure everything is organized and taken care of and that there aren’t fights over their stuff. It’s strange to hear them talk so calmly about it.

My grandma told me, “When you’re a child you don’t think you can die. When you’re young you realize you will and that scares you. But as you get older, it just becomes part of life. You know more people who do. You make plans for after you’re gone. And you accept it.”

I hope I can have her maturity about it if I (God willing) get to be her age. Because even though I want to experience heaven one day, there is a lot that is good about life on earth and I’d like to have a full life.
 
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About 100. I am pretty curious that’s why. 😃
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Actually my husband says he wants to spontaneously combust on his 100th birthday. I don’t know how he would arrange it (it’s not spontaneous then) but I told him that’s awfully precise. 😃
 
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That’s kind of where I am. I’m young and if I had to answer honestly right now I want to live forever because I’m really scared of death. I know that I don’t need to be, and I have faith, but that primal fear is very much present for me. (I also had very little exposure to death growing up.)

From what I understand, though, as I get older that will go away. My grandparents just reached their 80s. I am blessed that all four of them are still living and have good health. But they have begun speaking very, very openly about their deaths and the aftermath. They could have 20+ years left, but they want to make sure everything is organized and taken care of and that there aren’t fights over their stuff. It’s strange to hear them talk so calmly about it.

My grandma told me, “When you’re a child you don’t think you can die. When you’re young you realize you will and that scares you. But as you get older, it just becomes part of life. You know more people who do. You make plans for after you’re gone. And you accept it.”

I hope I can have her maturity about it if I (God willing) get to be her age. Because even though I want to experience heaven one day, there is a lot that is good about life on earth and I’d like to have a full life.
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Yes. My grandparents are 89 and 92, and they’ve lately been very obvious about tidying up their affairs. They finally sold their cows and they gave me some paintings (I’ve now got one over my fireplace that used to hang over theirs). They also did a basic renovation of their 1959 kitchen, replaced the sad trees in the orchard, and put in some new windows and relined some curtains.

It’s clear that they want to leave things as tidy as they can for their heirs as they can.

I think that’s an excellent plan. So many people live such huge messes when they die, both literal and financial.
 
For my family, I think 90 is a good number (I’ve seen a number of people get there in good shape), but I suspect that if I get there, there will inevitably be things that I’ll want to do and see. For instance, my grandparents went to the 70th anniversary of D-Day celebration in France this summer (despite some major health scares last year) and I expect they are impatiently expecting the imminent birth of great-grandbabies from two very unlikely great-grandchildren and a trip to see my family in a couple of weeks. As long as one is reasonably well and has a family around one that one loves, there will always be important milestones that one wants to live to see.
 
120, if I can still ride my bicycle, play my musical instruments, read with understanding, and write coherently.

Just long enough to tidy up my affairs if I can’t.
 
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