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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:17 AM Original message |
Poll question: Can we live too long? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'd like to try it and see. |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yes. I remember visiting my grandma in a nursing home. |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yes, I see this all the time. "Healthy" seniors are one thing, but a huge... |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. Yep. That's why I don't want to end up in one. |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:50 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. I don't think a person like that ever lead a happy and fulfilling life anyway. |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 03:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. True, but it was still startling, seeing people who just existed. Why even bother at that point? |
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clarence swinney (673 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
3. My motto is flexible |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 03:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. lol clarence |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
5. Life is fine until the quality is gone. |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
6. Living can be a fetish or addiction in itself |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
7. I can't, but others can |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:48 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I had the same thought... |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
8. can we be completely wrong about community consensus |
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greencharlie (827 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
9. depends... |
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Morning Dew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
12. Aw, shit. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 02:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. lol n/t |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
14. Other: can't be really discussed in a vacuum |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
15. As long as I'm able to read (even if it's only audiobooks), I'll want to stay alive. -nt |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
16. What's the alternative? Knocking the geezers in the head for the "good" of society? |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. Republicans live too long, only the good die young! |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
19. Hmm |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
20. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
21. Same question as "do we need people any more" |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
22. SOYLENT GREEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
23. As long as I'm healthy, I would be fine with immortality. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. Well, considering my life expectancy is shortened from anywhere to 5 to 12 years, I doubt I |
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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
26. I'm with Captain John Yossarian (Catch-22) on this one. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
28. If the elerly are mentally active and as physically active as possible |
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