Would you like to live to be 100?

blackcard

Life expectancy is now around 80 and likely to get longer with improvements in medicine. But I don't think I would like to live to be 100, I suppose if I was 99 I might think different. I think maybe if I got to about 85 or so, if I slipped away quietly in the night it might be a good way to go. So do you want to live to be 100?

When the Sun Hits

No, I most certainly don't.

Menas

I would if I was pain free, mentally agile and relatively independent. Otherwise no.

My grand dad was that way up to his death aged 95...And he was happy.

sm213

If I got into late 90s I'd be annoyed not to make it to 100.
Although I'd be dead so wouldn't really matter.

Seesee

I have a couple of octogenarians in my family at present in various states of health so if I was in relatively good mental and physical health I would say yes but if I had bad health obviously no. Dementia would be my biggest concern. This is not a good society for the old, our care systems are poor and our children will not have the time, energy or money to care for us nor would I want to be dependent on them so that would be another factor.

Links234

I want to live until 111, so I can announce that it's my 111th birthday! And say I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

nullzero

Links234 wrote: »

I want to live until 111, so I can announce that it's my 111th birthday! And say I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Happily your feet will most likely be incredibly hairy at that stage.

Banjo String

Age is only a number.

Buster would have agreed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Martin

jus_tin4

My gran is 102 in october, she has seen the death of her husband, and 2 of her daughters,and all of her direct family and friends. Most of her friends are all about 70/80. I personally would not like to for the reason above, BUT she is a fantastic woman. She lives on her own, still goes shopping and to the hairdressers etc(with the aid of my mam), is as cute as a fox, and just a pure lady. Its a miracle in truth and i am just glad i have got to experience it, but it has had its downs and it would take a very strong person for it to be achieved imo!

sxt

blackcard wrote: »

Life expectancy is now around 80 and likely to get longer with improvements in medicine. But I don't think I would like to live to be 100, I suppose if I was 99 I might think different. I think maybe if I got to about 85 or so, if I slipped away quietly in the night it might be a good way to go. So do you want to live to be 100?

If you were 100 and healthy, you would want to live longer..


If you were 100 and in chronic uncurable pain, you would want to live less..

Gael23

If I'm healthy then as long as possible. I recently heard about a man I kind of know now age 94, blind, unable to walk and with almost no quality of life so it depends on your health really

timthumbni

As someone earlier said yes, but only if I was to remain pretty healthy in both mind and body.

Plus I would get a telegram (or a tweet) from the queen or king. (I'm in Norn Iron) whoop whoop.

Banjo String

timthumbni wrote: »

As someone earlier said yes, but only if I was to remain pretty healthy in both mind and body.

Plus I would get a telegram (or a tweet) from the queen or king. (I'm in Norn Iron) whoop whoop.

Tciofadh ar la. :pac:

blackcard

Gael23 wrote: »

If I'm healthy then as long as possible. I recently heard about a man I kind of know now age 94, blind, unable to walk and with almost no quality of life so it depends on your health really

I suppose I would be afraid of being a burden on others. I would not expect others to alter their lifestyle to look after me in my old age

Dughorm

Yeah, why not... see how the up and coming generation of AI robots turn out...they might do the cooking for me and take off my socks in my old age ha!

Andre 3000

Yes just to get 100 pound from the president

timthumbni

Banjo String wrote: »

Tciofadh ar la. :pac:

I see the Irish language teaching is going well down there Banjo. Even a pure Norn Iron man like myself knows there's something not quite right with that spelling. Lol.

timthumbni

Andre 3000 wrote: »

Yes just to get 100 pound from the president

Wait, you get a 100 note. Maybe a united Ireland wouldn't be so bad after all. Ha.

Eugene Norman

Yes. 200. 500. 1000.

The rest is silence.

Andre 3000

timthumbni wrote: »

Wait, you get a 100 note. Maybe a united Ireland wouldn't be so bad after all. Ha.

Apparently you'd get 100 quid off the president and a letter or something if you reached 100. I never knew anyone personally who reached the age of 100 so it could be just a piseog

NachoBusiness

Menas wrote: »

I would if I was pain free, mentally agile and relatively independent. Otherwise no.

Jesus, you're fussy.

I'm not pain free, mentally agile and relatively independent now :P

As long as I can fap once a week, download films and wipe my own ass (or have one of those Japanese toilets) I'd like to stick around.

quadrifoglio verde

If living to 100 involves pissing through a bag, being fed through a tube, unable to remember my name and unable to get it up, then no. I'd rather be dead 20 years earlier due to enjoying life when I was younger and not worrying about the health advantages of drinking green tea.

Because that extra year ain't coming when your 23, it's coming when your 93 and rotting away in a nursing home .

Day Lewin

Absolutely yes. There are places in the world where people regularly live to 100, not just OLD but healthy old!

Like Okinawa and there are others, they are called the Blue Zones

and by the way, being integrated into family life is really important for long life an dgood health so you need to be willing to be cared for by your descendants and they will be very proud to care for you --

even though I will still be doing my garden and picking home grown fruit and vegetables and playing with my great-grandchildren and chatting with my friends and enjoying a glass of wine and a snog with my Significant Other!!

So surely YES.

On the tother hand, if I'm all weak and flimsy, deaf and blind and losing my marbles, i won't make it to that age anyway so why worry?

jimgoose

Hell yes.

Banjo String

timthumbni wrote: »

I see the Irish language teaching is going well down there Banjo. Even a pure Norn Iron man like myself knows there's something not quite right with that spelling. Lol.

For my sins, I copied it of a wall in an Armagh housing estate.

If my mind was still lively, then yes.

I wouldn't expect to be completely free of disability or infirmity, but that doesn't mean life wouldn't still be worth living.

Reedsie

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

I'd rather be dead 20 years earlier due to enjoying life when I was younger and not worrying about the health advantages of drinking green tea.

Because that extra year ain't coming when your 23, it's coming when your 93 and rotting away in a nursing home .

Either way you'll probably 'rot', as you put it. I think it's the 20 extra years 'pre-rot' that people give a sh1t about.

NachoBusiness

Kirk Douglas as sust over a year and quarter to go to hopefully making it.
Be nice to see him do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRyTISNDkkM

Turtwig

Most likely: no. Quality of life for most people over the age of 75 onwards starts dropping quite significantly. Yes, you can point out individuals over 90 who have a good quality of life. However, the majority tend to have deceased mobility and some degrees of chronic pain. So to answer your question OP it would depend on the quality of life I had.

Menas

Turtwig wrote: »

Most likely: no. Quality of life for most people over the age of 75 onwards starts dropping quite significantly. Yes, you can point out individuals over 90 who have a good quality of life. However, the majority tend to have deceased mobility and some degrees of chronic pain. So to answer your question OP it would depend on the quality of life I had.

The optimist in me hopes that medical science will make some big advances in improving the quality of life of older folks in the next few years!

brummytom

I made it to 22 years old today. Given my lifestyle, I'd be surprised if I made another 22. I've known people who lived to over 100, I can't think of anything worse, personally. Most likely very sick, all the people you would've grown up with are gone. Nah.

brummytom

brummytom wrote: »

I made it to 22 years old today. Given my lifestyle, I'd be surprised if I made another 22. I've known people who lived to over 100, I can't think of anything worse, personally. Most likely very sick, all the people you would've grown up with are gone. Nah.

Ah Tom.

I remember when you were just knee high to a grasshopper.

Happy feckin Birthday!

MilesMorales1

No you'd probably get bored. Might as well have a good short life.

inforfun

Really depends in what way.

Modern medicine makes it possible to keep the body go for a long time but after seeing someone very closeby suffer and ultimately die from Alzheimer i would rather fall over and die in a proper mental condition when i am 65 than go down the Alzheimer road and die at 100