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around what age do you...

  • 14-11-2008 3:05pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭deleriumtremens


    ..expect to die, based on your own observations about yourself eg. your own bad habits like smoking, drinking, taking drugs, eating bad food, not excercising, what your parents and relatives died from and so on!!?

    Id say I'l die in my late 60's because whereas both my grandads died at 74 i'd say I live a less healthy life than they did, what with my drinking and eating rubbish and never exercising!! But id say medicine will keep my alive, but chronically ill, from my early 60's onwards!!!

    During what age bracket do you think you are most likely to die? 76 votes

    younger than 45
    0% 0 votes
    45-50
    14% 11 votes
    50-55
    2% 2 votes
    55-60
    3% 3 votes
    60-65
    1% 1 vote
    65-70
    11% 9 votes
    70-75
    10% 8 votes
    75-80
    13% 10 votes
    80-90
    21% 16 votes
    older than 90!!!
    21% 16 votes


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    83, it will be September.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    any age from cancer. It's on both sides of my family as well as diabetes!! I'm fooked!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭missmatty


    Me too, but the side of the family i take after lived into their nineties. So I'll be fooked for about 30 years lol!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭junior_apollo


    6th wrote: »
    83, it will be September.

    Yes... I believe it will also be a Tuesday... Possibly Wednesday... Deffinately not Thursday


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    Dont;
    Drink, Smoke, Do Drugs.


    Dont worry i'll go to your Funeral.:)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Daithi McGee


    Mid 40's Either lung cancer or psoriasis of the liver. So <10 years to go!

    I should really change my ways :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Around the Age of Aquarius I expect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭marzic


    next week, I got a flying lesson token for my 94th birthday, i've never even driven a fcukin car... "nurse, my pan needs changing"...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Volvoboy wrote: »
    Dont;
    Drink, Smoke, Do Drugs.

    Same here. I'll be still voting in the 2078 elections.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    65+ one day, doing something suitably crazy with the cash lump sum from my pension.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Biggins wrote: »
    Same here. I'll be still voting in the 2078 elections.

    Hah! You think we'll even be having elections in 2078??

    *looks around*

    Where the hell's Run_to_da_hills to back me up?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    I think I'll do fairly well. The only "drug" I use is alcohol, and even then I only drink about once a month. Three out of my four grandparents are still alive. They're all over 80...about 85). There have been no deaths in my extended family (aunts, uncles, cousins).

    I don't eat bad food. I have a sandwich for lunch every day. I've stopped drinking coke regularly (used to have a bottle every day) now it might be just once a week and usually buy water with my lunch now.
    The only thing is, although I'm quite thin, I do very little exercise so I'm not actually fit. But that can be changed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Mid 40's Either lung cancer or psoriasis of the liver. So <10 years to go!

    ewww... flaky skin on your liver? That can't be nice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭marzic


    Mark200 wrote: »
    I think I'll do fairly well. The only "drug" I use is alcohol, and even then I only drink about once a month. Three out of my four grandparents are still alive. They're all over 80...about 85). There have been no deaths in my extended family (aunts, uncles, cousins).

    I don't eat bad food. I have a sandwich for lunch every day. I've stopped drinking coke regularly (used to have a bottle every day) now it might be just once a week and usually buy water with my lunch now.
    The only thing is, although I'm quite thin, I do very little exercise so I'm not actually fit. But that can be changed.
    i hope this is not a sensitive subject, but what happened the other one.. the other grand parent?:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Tzetze


    Aubrey says, "You should add a lot more options to your poll!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    marzic wrote: »
    i hope this is not a sensitive subject, but what happened the other one.. the other grand parent?:o

    Nah it's not sensitive to me, possibly because she was dead before my parents even got married. I think cancer (not the best sign for me) but I'm not sure. She was on my mam's side of the family, and both my mam's grandparents I think were still alive for her wedding so it was *hopefully* just a one off. I've got loads of relations on my mam's side and none have them have got cancer yet.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Volvoboy wrote: »
    Dont;
    Drink, Smoke, Do Drugs.


    Dont worry i'll go to your Funeral.:)


    I'm sure you will, its obvious you wont have anything else to do :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭EdgarAllenPoo


    50-55, really if I'm around any longer than that I'll just be wasting time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭AngryBadger


    Well I'm going to live forever obviously, but your poll doesn't have an "Immortal" option :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    I'm sure you will, its obvious you wont have anything else to do :p

    LOL:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Squiggle


    deathclock for all you paranoid fother muckers. :pac: Don't think it factors in the probability of getting pasted unexpectedly by the 46A or the like !!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭deleriumtremens


    Tzetze wrote: »
    Aubrey says, "You should add a lot more options to your poll!"

    Yea I just noticed. I should probably have lumped the yonger decades into blocks of ten and then from 70 onwards went up in 5 year chunks until the age of 100 plus!! Ah well, were all goin to die, why worry!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    Never , like Kieth Richards I cannot be killled by conventional weapons


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I put 60 to 65, though I do expect to live forever.




    I'm doing alright so far...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    GDM wrote: »
    50-55, really if I'm around any longer than that I'll just be wasting time.

    And your time is better spent dead? :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Mid 40's Either lung cancer or psoriasis of the liver. So <10 years to go!

    I should really change my ways :(

    Like a mate of mine said, when told by his GP that he should cut out the drinking and smoking "I'm not going to change my lifestyle for an extra two years in a geriatric ward." :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    Every day i am still alive is a tiny miracle. I should have been dead long ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    Squiggle wrote: »
    deathclock for all you paranoid fother muckers. :pac: Don't think it factors in the probability of getting pasted unexpectedly by the 46A or the like !!
    They say I've got another 40 years which would put me in the 65-70 bracket. Honestly, I'd be surprised if I last that long :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,370 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    I voted 75-80. Longevity runs in my family.

    Three of my grandparents are still alive. They're 72, 72 and 77.

    One of grandfathers died when he was 78. He'd been a very heavy drinker and he had had a few strokes.

    I do drink, do drugs and I recently quit smoking. Only 20 so hopefully another 50-odd years to go.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,184 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    You mean we are not going to live forever ?? :( Like in Raiders of the Lost Ark


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I hope to kick the bucket around 65, but will probably live to about 80. All grandparents lived to that age. 15 years of bridge and complaining about the youth of today no thanks.

    Actually I'm already complaining about today's youth. You can never start too early.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Deffo older than 90.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    the death clock told me i am going to die in 2038,so that leaves me with 30 yrs left
    im 34 by the way,i'll let ye know in 2038 if they were right:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    4 Grandparents (52+64+89+100)/4 = 76.25. I'd be happy with that.


    Edit: Just checked the old Deathclock. Says I'll be 74


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    If science progresses the way it has, I can see people alive today as among the last who died before 150+. I wouldn't be too surprised to find that a baby born today will live to be 500. It's scientifically possible. In a 1000 yrs at current growth on knowledge? functional immortality is not just possible but likely IMHO.

    Me? judging by genetics, at least 90, regardless of smoking or drinking. No allergies, never had an antibiotic, never been in hospital etc I eat on old fashioned diet too so... I'll see 85+ anyway. Then again could drop tomorrow.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Leilani Breezy Comic


    I don't exercise much, but I don't eat all that much junk and I don't smoke or drink. My great-grandmother was 98. My grandparents are old enough and quite spry -you wouldn't think they are the age they are, friends comment on that when meeting them.
    So all in all, 80-90 barring an accident etc


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Hopefully in my late 40's/early 50's. I'd hate to live much longer than that - being old would suck. :(

    Don't smoke or do drugs and very rarely drink. But my diet is pretty bad (no veg. whatsoever) and cancer runs in my family.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I don't drink or smoke, i eat healthily, do a reasonable amount of exercise and work in a physically demanding job. As my grandparents all lived to their 80s/90s, I thought I would have stood a good chance of living to a ripe old age, then my mother and father got cancer and died young.


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