I don't want to take up space any longer than I have to.

I have an uncle in his 90s who is so afraid of dying that he obsesses about it continually. I feel sorry him and the stranglehold on his life it has taken.

I've completed the most important tasks of my life and if I died tomorrow, it would mean coming full circle. I need nothing else from this world than I already have and, when I go, it will likely be with only slightly more than I came into life with. The universe doesn't remember us as much as we humans conceitedly think.

Nearly everyone she knew when she was young has died. Even younger friends she made later in life are mostly gone. She's buried a husband and a child. The only thing that worries her about dying is a slow, lingering death.

I have no desire to reach my 80s.

I've lost almost all of my family and I'm only 50. I have a brother left, who is 58...lost my mom, dad, and sister. Not a lot of friends left. Yes, 80 is old enough in my book too.

She lived in her hometown her entire life. She said that every week from about age 70 she would read in the paper that someone she knew had died. When she died at 87 all of her close friends were gone.

She worked in her garden though, 2-6 hours, every day rain or shine. When she was about 84 I bought her a garden weasel. That way she could work her flower beds without having to get on her knees. The last year of her life she was scared that she would fall while working in the garden, and break a hip or something. Throughout my grandparents marriage, they worked their property obsessively. It had to be perfect at all times. It was their passion and after Grandpa died, she kept it up. Nothing could stop her from her gardening, nothing.

My husband doesn't want to live that long. I would love to live that long. My mother and grandmother both died in their early thirties. I am in my late thirties and loving every minute I have on this Earth. I'm just getting started.

I've always had a lot of interests in a lot of things. As long as I could still, say, read or hear well enough for audio books, that would be something. But, I've seen so many people just stuck in wheelchairs in nursing homes without anything but maybe a tv to occupy them ... I would not be interested in spending many years like that.

I see elderly Asian people walking around my neighborhood all the time. Just simply walking and trying new things to keep your mind sharp can go along way to keeping a long active lifestyle into old age.

People get sick and I won't blame them for that. People like to say, "Oh, I don't do X and I do Y, so I won't end up like like", but in my experience, there are no guarantees. But I know it's easier to think there are.

I'd love to live that long. My grandfather lived to 102 and it was only the last 3 of his years where he needed care (he broke his hip at 99 but was fine before that). He was out chopping and gathering firewood at 97. My other grandfather made it to 97, despite being obese, an alcoholic and smoker, and only needed to be in a home the last 6 months of his life. He was pretty capable and with it to the end. My one grandmother died at 85 and I'm convinced she would've lived longer if they would've tried to find out what was wrong with her (she lived in an area where the doctor just kept telling her she felt sick because of 'old age' and didn't do tests). My other grandmother (who is a toxic person and I have had no contact with her for 4 years) is still alive and must be close to 90. She looks many years younger than her age. I've always hoped to live at least into my 90's as long as I can be as capable as my grandparents were at that age. My health is not as good as theirs was, so I'm not as likely to make it so far, but genetics count for a lot and I do have it on my side. I'm also in my late 30s and feel like I'm just getting started.

I fully expect to break 100, no sweat. And by then, technology will have progressed that I bet I can reach 150. And so on and so on.

I don't understand those who want to simply disappear from life. It's never too late to start a health regimen.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

make that shit last.

It helps to have enough money set aside if you want to live a long time. I sure don't!

There's always the possibility of things improving.
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The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

She is a wealth of knowledge about the past; fascinating what she's seen in her lifetime. I spend as much time as possible encouraging her to talk to me about her childhood, etc. Physically she has some issues, the biggest one is her failing eyesight. I expect she will reach 100 at her current pace.

My family dies young, but they also all smoke like chimneys and eat badly, so hopefully I've dodged those bullets.