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What age would you like to live to?

  • 25-05-2012 12:12am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭


    In other words, what do think is a reasonable age to shuffle off this mortal coil?

    The brother of a mate of mine, said he doesn't want to live past 30. He's already 22 at this stage.

    Personally, I'd like to be assaulting my grandchildren with senile gibberish until I was about 85.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    over 9000


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    Whenever I can't wipe my own arse anymore.
    Then it's time.


  • Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    If i die at 69, my dreams will have been fulfilled.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Sauve wrote: »
    Whenever I can't wipe my own arse anymore.
    Then it's time.

    What if you can still wipe someone elses arse?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Before I turn into a baldy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭mackeire


    100 would be a grand aul age!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Sauve wrote: »
    Whenever I can't wipe my own arse anymore.
    Then it's time.

    In the future, there will be robots to do that for you. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    No one lives forever, no one. But with advances in modern science and my high level income, it's not crazy to think I can live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper that they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,973 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Tomorrow, - every day for the rest of my life.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    I want to live for... all of it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    83½.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭PrincessLola


    Usually when people say they want to die young its vanity, your friend just doesn't want anyone to remember them as old and wrinkly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    the Age of Aquarius


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭joshrogan


    I'd like to see the turn of the century so around 114/115 would be a grand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I don't mind I'll take whatever I get. If I'm dead in a year or still living 60 years from now its not something I really think about anymore.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Mr.Biscuits


    When I have to take Viagra mashed up in a banana.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,202 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Fifty is enough.

    Ah, fcukit, I'm already 52. :mad: And I checked my life expectancy: another 29 poxy years of this ****e.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    I cannot forecast my biology.

    But, being the veritable miser that consumes only green tea n atypically goes on to live a long time I will give that a shot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    When my boobs reach my bellybutton, it will be time to go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    sady, our libido props up our physicality n when that goes.. I fear I may suffer many aches and pains n general feebleness


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭teednab-el


    Long enough until I can't do the things I normally do. Then it's time to go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    155


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    id love see how technology has advanced in say.. a thousand years!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I'm 36 now. I want to live to at least 38.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    dyer wrote: »
    id love see how technology has advanced in say.. a thousand years!

    Life will likely be very boring.

    Everything done for you and you not allowed to do anything for safety reasons. Kind of like the matrix except we'll all believe it's for our own good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭Twinkleboots


    I'd like to see my son grow up healthy and happy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    When my boobs reach my bellybutton, it will be time to go.
    RIP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    eth0 wrote: »
    Life will likely be very boring.

    Everything done for you and you not allowed to do anything for safety reasons. Kind of like the matrix except we'll all believe it's for our own good

    In the year 3000? Not much would change, but they'd live underwater.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    My mortgage will be paid off on the 18/2/2034, known my luck i'll die on 17/2/2034.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    Senna wrote: »
    My mortgage will be paid off on the 18/2/2034, known my luck i'll die on 17/2/2034.

    Ah.

    One of those 110% jobbies from the tiger was it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    eth0 wrote: »
    Ah.

    One of those 110% jobbies from the tiger was it?

    Thankfully no 90%, but probably closer to 110% now and not getting any lower.


  • Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd say 45-50 would be enough for me. I'm 23 at the moment, and I don't really think I quite see the point in hanging around for the sake of hanging around.

    By the time I'm 45-50 I'd imagine I'd have taken a decent enough stab at the things I wanted to try and I'll have a decent enough idea of what kind of success/failure I was met with.

    Don't really see the point in hanging on much longer? What are you gonna do at 50 that you couldn't have done (better) at 30? (that said, I must stress that I've no interest in marriage or starting a family or such, so that kinda stuff that'd motivate other people to keep on going wouldn't really have much effect on me, I wouldn't imagine - time will tell!).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    When my boobs reach my bellybutton, it will be time to go.

    conversely, when our balls reach our belly button it will be equally time to go

    I need to tie my mickey in a knot n be done with it. Ohmmmm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Sauve wrote: »
    Whenever I can't wipe my own arse anymore.
    Then it's time.

    :confused:


    girls don't pooo don't be silly every one knows that :rolleyes:


  • Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    Good topic, op.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    By the time I'm 45-50 I'd imagine I'd have taken a decent enough stab at the things I wanted to try
    Ahahaha, the innocence of youth.

    At 45-50, you'll still be saying that you need more time to do the things you've always wanted to do.

    I have no particular desire to leave the world at any age. There are a lot of experiences to have. This is it, once you're dead, you just rot in the ground, no second chances.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭Plumpynutt


    ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!!!!!!!!1


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    I don't want to die, ever! I want to Stop ageing at 30. The thought of me being an old man are vile.

    But if I have to die, 27 is a special number.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭NiallFH


    Forever, I have no interest at all in dieing. I believe you get one chance, gods and an afterlife is a load of garbage. So if its 1 chance I would prefer mine not to end

    EDIT: I would want to live forever and be healthy too, not in a comatose or senile state etc


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    If I ever get Alzheimers or go senile, I want someone to kill me.

    Also if I lose the ability to communicate effectively, I'd want someone to kill me too.
    I worked in an old folks home years ago and there was this lady who had had a stroke - you could tell that all the cogs were still turning and that she was completely coherent, except all she could say was "yes, yes, yes, no, no, no" - but with no meaning attached.
    Like if she wanted tea and you asked her did she want tea, she'd say "yes, yes, yes, no, no, no".
    She'd give the same response if she didn't want it.
    Her life was just sitting in a chair without being able to move, go to the toilet, wash herself etc... and with no means of communicating with anyone - that would be my ultimate nightmare :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭ChopShop


    Younger than i am now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    82.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    No one lives forever, no one. But with advances in modern science and my high level income, it's not crazy to think I can live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper that they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia.

    Sure they did, I read that there's a pig going round with a human heart in it too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I'm twenty-three now, but will I live to see twenty-four?
    The way things are going I don't know.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    38


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    If I ever get Alzheimers or go senile, I want someone to kill me.

    Also if I lose the ability to communicate effectively, I'd want someone to kill me too.
    I worked in an old folks home years ago and there was this lady who had had a stroke - you could tell that all the cogs were still turning and that she was completely coherent, except all she could say was "yes, yes, yes, no, no, no" - but with no meaning attached.
    Like if she wanted tea and you asked her did she want tea, she'd say "yes, yes, yes, no, no, no".
    She'd give the same response if she didn't want it.
    Her life was just sitting in a chair without being able to move, go to the toilet, wash herself etc... and with no means of communicating with anyone - that would be my ultimate nightmare :(

    i'd hate that too... if i end up in a nursing home like that will you come wipe my bum for me? more worryingly strokes is the big killer in my family :(

    my grandad (mum's dad) and ALL but one of his siblings (including grandad) suffered from strokes. the one that didn't have a stroke died from MS :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    What's the world record?

    That + 1 day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    i'd hate that too... if i end up in a nursing home like that will you come wipe my bum for me?

    No. Maybe the one who likes shopping will though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    My mother died of cancer when she was 36.
    I have always had it in my head that I will die then too.


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