How near are you to the maximum age lived of your oldest living or now dead parent or grandparent?

Atlantic Dawn · 08-02-2022 03:22AM #1

How near are you to the maximum age lived of your oldest living or now dead parent or grandparent based on your current age.

I will start, I am at 52.5% of life done until I hit their age, time flies.

Peregrinus · 08-02-2022 03:50AM

I am 67.8% of my mother's age. My mother is still living.

08-02-2022 04:12AM

Weird that you ask this question today. I am 92% of my Dad's age. He died at 57.

It's my brother's birthday this week, and he'll be 57. I was just thinking today that he'll be the same age as our Dad was when he passed.

It does make you stop and think.

PoisonIvyBelle · 08-02-2022 04:24AM

My grandma (dead now) lived til 78 so I might be 43 years away from the reaper yer.

Atlantic Dawn · 08-02-2022 04:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118598248#Comment_118598248

Sure does, in my circle of family it was those who literally did feck all in their later years in terms of regular unnecessary doctor visits that outlived the career visitors by 5-10 years.

Peregrinus · 08-02-2022 06:46AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118598256#Comment_118598256

That's normal. If you think about it, the people least likely to visit the doctor are those who are in the best health and have the fewest problems. Unsurprisingly, with such good health, they tend to live longer.

If the frequent visitors in your family died younger than the others, surely that indicates that their frequent visits were not unnecessary? They did in fact have poorer health; that's why they died.

NIMAN · 08-02-2022 08:48AM

My mother is still living, but I am 96.4% of the way to the age my father died at.

Baybay · 08-02-2022 09:04AM

I am 64.2% of the age my mother was when she died & 67.5% of the age my father was but 56.84% of the age of my closest relative who is still living.

seamus · 08-02-2022 09:38AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118598256#Comment_118598256

Selection bias :)

Those with the most ailments visit the doctor more than those without.

It's a real mixed bag in my family. Grandmother died in her forties after childbirth. Grandfather on the other side dropped dead of heart attack at 68. Their spouses lasted well into their early 80s. So depending on which side of the family I'm most like, I'm not even halfway there, or I'm nearly two-thirds of the way there.

Although in theory it seems like people on my Dad's side tend to all go relatively early, my Dad's aunt outlived him by 6 weeks. She was in her 90s.

Knowing how most of them died, it seems like I should do OK once I avoid smoking, keep exercising, keep the brain active and make an effort to get heart-specific checkups every couple of years. Not a single case of cancer or other terminal illness in either tree. Aside from that one grandmother, they all eventually died of heart failure/old age.

BrianD3 · 08-02-2022 11:49AM

I'm in my mid 40s and am at just over 50% of the longest lived one (paternal grandmother). I'm at about 90% of the shortest lived one (maternal grandfather, died young of TB)

L1011 · 08-02-2022 11:59AM

Got an alleged >100 year old direct ancestor - but born before birth certs and the baptism record could easily be a cousin or older brother that died as a child, but in the modern era one grandparent is still alive at 96. So well below 50%.

GreeBo · 08-02-2022 12:01PM

I'm 19 years younger than my dad when he died, I can clearly remember him being my age and thinking that he was old.

I still feel (and some say act!) like Im in my 20s :(

Kalimah · 08-02-2022 12:09PM

I'm my mothers age when she died plus 20% and my dad's age plus 10%. Hoping I take after my grandparents, and even my great grandparents who lived well into their 80s and a couple nearly 90.

Wibbs · 08-02-2022 12:16PM

In living memory only one of the male members of my family(both sides) died before 85(TB got him back in the day) and two of my great grandfathers were over 90, so a bit to go yet. Or I could find out next week I've got a month to live. Who knows. Oddly if I were a woman in my family I'd be more concerned. Only two made it beyond 80(just) and most were gone by 70-75 and a fair few younger than that. Which is kinda the opposite of general trends.

freshpopcorn · 08-02-2022 12:31PM

I only knew one Grandmother and she lived to be 90.

I think both my grand father's died in there early 50's

Other Grandmother was mid seventies.

I'm nearly 30!

JupiterKid · 08-02-2022 12:40PM

I am nearly the exact same age my late mother was when she died suddenly - one month shy of 47. I was 15 at the time she died.

My late father was 75 when he passed away in 2015 - so that makes my current age 63% of his life span. His younger brother, my uncle, just turned 80.

All of my mother's siblings died relatively young, my mother being the youngest of them. Uncle died at 51, another at 59 (multiple organ failure - he was a chronic alcoholic), an aunt at 69 (cancer), and another aunt making it to 72. So very poor outcomes on my mother's side. That side of the family, I have recently found out - as it certainly wasn't talked about when any of them were alive - has been dogged by mental health and addiction issues going back at least two generations. 😓

I've also lost three cousins on my mother's side too - one at 41 from breast cancer, another at 47 from a massive heart attack (like my mum), and another at 59 from a massive stroke.

My paternal grandfather was the longest living of all my grandparents, of which I knew three. He died in April 2000 having just turned 92. My current age is 51% of that long life. His mother, my great-grandmother, lived to be 97 and she died when I was 4.

My other three grandparents passed away aged 70 (maternal grandfather, just after my parents were married in 1967, so he was born in the 19th century!), maternal grandmother aged 84 in 1985 (she was in her early 40s when my mother was born) and my paternal grandmother aged 79 in 1994.

Heart problems feature very prominently in my family medical history so my own cardiac health is monitored on a regular basis.

08-02-2022 12:43PM

Strange thread. I am in the 60s, but except for accidents and wars, all my family lives to be late 90s, one grand mother to be 99 and 51 weeks!

BaywatchHQ · 08-02-2022 03:23PM

My grandfather died a few months off his 91st birthday a couple years ago. My grandparents were quite old for my age (29). He was born in 1928 Philadelphia and my other grandfather was born in 1919 shortly before the partition. There are people my age who have grandparents born in the 1940s.

The oldest relative I know off was my great grandfather, he died aged 97. He lived through WW1 when his 2 brothers died, War of Independence, WW2 and 19 years of the troubles.

Pherekydes · 08-02-2022 04:35PM

My father's mother died at 83, so I'm 74.5% of the way there!

I've already overtaken both of my grandfathers and I'm not far off my father's age when he died. (86% 😳)

seamus · 08-02-2022 04:48PM

@BaywatchHQ wrote

My grandparents were quite old for my age (29)

Jeez, I would have said they were quite young! Nobody I knew had any grandparents alive by the time they'd turned 15. My youngest grandparent was 69 when I born.

Depends on the history I suppose. If you're the eldest child of an eldest child then your grandparents could conceivably be in their 40s when you're born, even without shotgun weddings or teenage pregnancies.

Strumms · 08-02-2022 04:58PM

My oldest was my grandparents on my mothers side … they died in late ‘80’s and early ‘90’s… I think 85 and 84 were their ages… that grandmother had two sisters who were 91 and 93 when they died which for those times was good… everyone seems to live well and long…

on my fathers side where there’s is a history of heart problems and cancer they made it to 51 and 70 before succumbing to both of these conditions, respectively…a family of workaholics by all accounts….which isn’t good for your health.. my grandad went to bed and the guy never woke up again.. massive heart attack…

so I’ve well over 40 years to go using my mothers side as a barometer…

significantly less using my dads side…

looksee · 08-02-2022 05:06PM

My mother died at 93, so I am at 80.6% of her age. I have already outlived my father by 25 years.

gazzer · 08-02-2022 06:54PM

I'm 48% of my Grandmother's age. She will be 103 this year

08-02-2022 07:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118598238#Comment_118598238

I thought you died nearly 2000 years ago- nice to see you’re still around - you must have a lot of stories to tell, assuming you haven’t got dementia

Charles Babbage · 08-02-2022 07:33PM

I am 98.4% of the age my mother died. :(

08-02-2022 07:36PM

Pretty much all Parents uncles and aunts and grandparents lived between late 70s and mid 80s- one small exception of two aunts early 70s - some of these born late 1800s so not bad considering - certainly most beat the average living age for males and females at time of death

bmc58 · 08-02-2022 07:40PM

I'm 102% of my fathers age(I think) when he died at 60.I'm 63.

Peregrinus · 09-02-2022 02:10AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118601774#Comment_118601774

Mmm. That would make my mother nearly 3,000 years old, wouldn't it? I don't think she'd be pleased at the suggestion.

Jim_Hodge · 09-02-2022 10:09PM

Good question.

I'm 116% of my father's and 150% of my brother's ages when they died.

Just 67% of my grandfather's, so that's my target.

How near are you to the maximum age lived of your oldest living or now dead parent or grandparent?

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