Iām not sure why, but I want to live to be at least 80. I guess living to 80 weeds out the amateurs in their 70s. I only have a couple of months to go to meet my goal. But as I get older, I get more aches in places I never knew I had.
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I have no age goals. Like most of us I want to be as healthy as possible. None of us wants to be old but the alternative has nothing going for it. I heard once that āThe only person who wants to be 100 is now 99āš
I am not sure about the aging problems, but I am a proscrastinator and still have loose ends and some bits of work to do. Remember the 16 tons song: Saint Peter don’t call me cause I can’t go, I owe my soul to the country store.
I’m really not at all sure what age I want to reach. What I do know is that I don’t want to be entirely dependant on a relative and in constant need of nursing care, having lost all dignity, and be a burden for all. So I’m trying to mitigate that as far as possible. Finally though, if it really does get intolerably bad all round, I might ask if I can be taken out to the cliff top to look out at the sea and accidentally topple over the edge, hopefully with enough pills and alcohol to not know anything about it.
dj, sounds like a plan. In my state we just passed laws for compassionate choices where by doctors can assist in dying if a patient is terminal. Other patients choose to stop eating. We have had those laws in other states for several years. There was a big case with a young woman in her 20’s with brain damage and she had to decide while she was competent to make the decision so the law is stupid but better than the other options. Any day she could have had seizures and not have been able to do what was required. Take good care of yourself and you can feel great for many years. I still feel great almost every day and I have condition and I am a lot older than you. It is in my profile. Hugs