Age/Oldness

Dermington · 06-07-2006 12:20pm #1

Sylvester Stallone is 60 today..

WTF?!?!?! :eek: :eek: :eek:

When did all these famous people start becoming ancient?

In my head 60 is nearly 70...and 70 means 10-15 years to live max...

Has it always been that depressing??

EWheelChair · 06-07-2006 12:29pm

This thread is so...

FIRST!

aidan_walsh · 06-07-2006 12:33pm

When did all these famous people start becoming ancient?

Since you stopped being young.

Evil_Bilbo · 06-07-2006 12:59pm

bush is 60 today aswell - maybe him and sly are twins (just like arnie and danny de vito). They're in good shape for 60 - there's hope for the rest of us yet.

Dermington · 06-07-2006 1:32pm

aidan_walsh wrote:

Since you stopped being young.

I'm 20

Calibos · 06-07-2006 2:30pm

Dermington wrote:

Sylvester Stallone is 60 today..

WTF?!?!?! :eek: :eek: :eek:

When did all these famous people start becoming ancient?

In my head 60 is nearly 70...and 70 means 10-15 years to live max...

Has it always been that depressing??

Same thought went through my head when I realised my old man is nearly 60, which is nearly 70 and the only difference being 15-20 years at least beyond that barring accidents. Then I looked at it another way. He has my entire lifespan to date to go before he dies. In some ways when looking back at slices of time between milestones in my life, my 32 years seem to have flown but when I contemplate my 32 years as a whole. Jesus it was been a sh1tload of time. He has a while to go yet.

So no, not that depressing for me or him, YET.

Luckily for me longevity seems to run in both sides of my family. Maternal grandmother is 88 and is in great health, not senile but just starting to get forgetful in the last few months. Forgetful, not as in forgetting how many kids she had etc but forgetfull as in forgetting something she told you a fortnight ago and telling you again, so nothing to worry about really. Grandmothers mother died at 99 but unfortunately the dementia hit her at the young age of 95!

Her husband died at 89.

Maternal Grandfather died of Lung Cancer at 57. My God he seemed ancient and an old man to me when I was a kid when he died and yet my old man is now 2 years older! Sure a 30 year old is an old man to a kid I guess. He was a 60 a day unfiltered man though and was a baker all his life. (Think flour clogging up the lungs) so I don't consider him putting a downer on the familial genetic longevity stakes.

Paternal Grandmother died at 84 of a heart attack, while all her sisters lived dementia free till they died in their 90's. 84 was a decent enough innings. Paternal grandfather is dementia free at 87 and just a bit wobbley on his feet. So dementia free infact that he still helps with the book-keeping of the family business which keeps his mind active. His body is kept active by still playing the Saxaphone at 87! Has a Jazz gig every Sunday. He's an amatuer though. Only being playing professionally for 8 decades!

. Dunno how he does it. I couldn't blow a Sax for 1 minute never mind an hour or two at 87!

His father died at my age , ie 32 but it was the TB that got him. My grandfathers grandparents who where born during the famine and had his father very late as the last child both lived to their mid 90's, which is some achievement considering the average life expectancy in the 19th century! Hopefully, I'll see in a new decade in 2070.

Oh yeah, like I said my father is 59 but looks about 45. I'm 32 but look about 22. Finally stopped getting asked for ID in pubs/clubs when I hit 30. Aren't genetics great!

:D

Beruthiel · 06-07-2006 2:54pm

Dermington wrote:

I'm 20

In the blink of an eye, you'll be 40, bald, beer belly and driving a sports car in the vain hope of still being able to pick up a chick, any chick...

Dermington · 06-07-2006 3:01pm

Beruthiel wrote:

In the blink of an eye, you'll be 40, bald, beer belly and driving a sports car in the vain hope of still being able to pick up a chick, any chick...

You have just described 99% of the working population of a certain gas company in Cork

azezil · 06-07-2006 3:03pm

Beruthiel wrote:

In the blink of an eye, you'll be 40, bald, beer belly and driving a sports car in the vain hope of still being able to pick up a chick, any chick...

Yeah, and how is that workin out for ya?