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How long do you want to live?

How much does quality of life factor into how long you want to live?

What would you like to be doing when you're over 60? 70? 80? and on...

Average life span keeps increasing all the time...
 
I would like to live till at least my 80s, which both my parents did. I am 54 right now and because of our lifestyle I still look and feel young. Hopefully I will continue to live this lifestyle until I die. People ask me why I lift weights and my answer has always been to fight old age and it has.
 
LOL, getting deep on us here Shelby:p

1.) As long as I am happy, I would live until i'm 200yrs old and not mind...I think. One thing i'd hate to do, and not trying to make this too extreme, is that i'd hate to bury my own child. That would be kind of weird and painful. I also do not want to be in a damn wheelchair when I get old and not be able to roam freely on my feet. When I get to the point where I start losing my mind, am not happy, cannot hep others, cannot fend for my own, and have serious health concerns (especially those restricting my mobility), I want to "go" before I suffer more.

2.) Quality of life factors in 100% to me. I like to 'take chances' like everybody else, especially while I am still fairly young, but I don't lose site of my overall health for a better life in the future, and also for it to take away time from any kids I may have, as wel as my loved ones.

3.) Spending time with my family, pushing weight in the gym and looking great for my age, staying active on my feet, traveling the world, providing for my family, and going to bed with my wife every night and to wake up every morning to see her old-wrinkly, pretty smile. Helping my kids and any grandchildren with anything they need. I want to travel, fish, and still be abe to have fun without pain. A nice boner every now and then wouldn't hurt either:)

I was thinking about the life-span just 2 days ago too.


BMJ
 
How long do you want to live?

How much does quality of life factor into how long you want to live?

What would you like to be doing when you're over 60? 70? 80? and on...

Average life span keeps increasing all the time...

Thats tough to answer but in all reality I want to live as long as possible while maintaining a healthy, productive life.

My grandfather is getting close to 90 and does not miss a beat. He still drives himself to Laughlin to gamble without my grandmother. I have to hand it to him because it's not like he is trying to say "Screw getting older, I'll show these guys that I still have it!!", he is just doing what he feels he can still do.
 
How long?

Until I physically start failing. I'm trying to fight it, but I believe Hemingway had the right idea about aging. Don't.

"I hope I die before I get old"

I'm 46.

And you are only as old as the woman you feel. :rolleyes:
 
Being 45, I hope the end isn't in sight.
But............I am not afraid of dying, I don't want to get to so old that I can't do anything.

On a side note I've instructed my kids that if I get to the point where I drive 30 mph under the speed limit in the center lane they are to euthanize me.
 
It will be interesting to see how improvements in medical technology will continue to affect this. Also, health care policy.

One has to wonder also, how many people can this planet support?
 
One has to wonder also, how many people can this planet support?

That's the thing. I feel like the planet is already too crowded. As experiments show, when rats are packed together in an enclosed space, they become more aggressive. Same with people I believe. We are already fighting over limited resources and crowding out some of the natural ecosystem in the process.

I want to live as long as I can and remain independent and healthy. I don't want to know the date or set one.

I want to continue to make more time for travel as I get older and give more back by volunteering, maybe at a Children's Hospital
 
I have been thinking about this for a while now. I am 41 so not to young and not to old but I have pretty bad arthritis in the L4 and L5 (lower back) in addition I have a degenerative right hip, so I am in constant pain, this goes along with sore joints in the elbows and shoulders. I don't know how long I want to live but the pain that I have to put up with everyday pretty much sucks. I want to get my hip replaced before the limp I walk with ruins my right knee and I want to be able to be active with my kids (3 and 6) as they grow up. unfortuneatley I haven't found a doc that will do the replacement now because of my age (does not want to have to do it again later in life)

Right now I just warm up a little more prior to heavy lifting and I stretch more (well try to stretch) before and after any excercise.
 
I want to live as long as I can and remain independent and healthy. I don't want to know the date or set one.


This is one I consider very important too, being independent. I don't want to be a drain on anyone.
 
I want to have a quality versus quantity....

I have treated patients well in to there 90's. I will say however most of these people have a shit quality of life. They have feeding tubes. They are incontinent of bowel and bladder. They have severe diabetes. They are on Hemodialaysis etc..... I think to myself where is the quality??? I see none. However it is up to the individual to make the choice. I will say Most of these folks cost upwards of 1 million dollars a year for care. That being said this is why our healthcare system is bankrupt. We as a nation can not afford to keep doing this. I for one am a christian so im not so afraid of death. I dont want to die but if it happens so be it. Ill be with the lord. So i dont shoot for an age.:)
 
I have treated patients well in to there 90's. I will say however most of these people have a shit quality of life. They have feeding tubes. They are incontinent of bowel and bladder. They have severe diabetes. They are on Hemodialaysis etc..... I think to myself where is the quality??? I see none. However it is up to the individual to make the choice. I will say Most of these folks cost upwards of 1 million dollars a year for care. That being said this is why our healthcare system is bankrupt. We as a nation can not afford to keep doing this. I for one am a christian so im not so afraid of death. I dont want to die but if it happens so be it. Ill be with the lord. So i dont shoot for an age.:)

Yes, this is what concerns me.
I don't want to be 80+ and in and out of the hospital all the time fighting to stay alive. I don't want to be on 12 different medications and have to see 5 different doctors every month.

Perhaps my viewpoint will change as I age, but I just don't see the point in living just to live...
 
How long do you want to live?

How much does quality of life factor into how long you want to live?

What would you like to be doing when you're over 60? 70? 80? and on...

Average life span keeps increasing all the time...

I would like to live as long as I can live. Maybe to 100 or over.

Quality of life is important to me. Eat Smart and live long is the key to quality of life and how you live your life in terms of how you think. Power of the positve mind !

Would like to continue to do bodybuilding and look young when I get to 60-80 and feel good about myself and my health. Spend as much time with family and watch grown up kids as I get older and learn to be independent and do the things that I am capable of.


I rather be an old fart than a young dickhead lol
 
exaxctly Shelby...

That is the problem. Live at all costs. No matter if you have severe dimentia, alzheimers, etc..... Again keeping someone alive and actually living are two different things. Familys can be selfish. They can not accept death. It is inevetable. It will happen. Americans seem to much worse than most when it comes to death. Others view it as cyclic. You live you die.....It is quite sad actually.
 
I cannot see me not being able to do things myself, as I have most of my life..it would be tough...I'd like to live long and happy life, but not live through tubes and meds, and confined.
 
That is the problem. Live at all costs. No matter if you have severe dimentia, alzheimers, etc..... Again keeping someone alive and actually living are two different things. Familys can be selfish. They can not accept death. It is inevetable. It will happen. Americans seem to much worse than most when it comes to death. Others view it as cyclic. You live you die.....It is quite sad actually.

What's interesting is that other cultures (I can't speak for all, but I know this is very true of Asian cultures) have a much higher reverence / respect for their elders than do Americans. But we seem to be less accepting of death, and more willing to do anything to keep them alive...
 
How do you think bodybuilding effects ones lifespan?

I don't mind being taken care of by a child of mine or other loved one. Just like I don't mind taking care of my loved ones should they need it. I hate that aspect of our culture. "Lets send the elderly away and let them be someone elses problem."
 
I think if we progress on current path anyone currently in their 30 or 40's can expect to likely see 90, or close to it. That will be average, exceptions always occur. The problem I see is that the way our economy is presently structured, with both spouses often needing to work to survive, SS age constantly getting raised because the system is going bankrupt, people having children later, that it's created a situation where many peoples health is failing and their children are still working, and they oft are somewhat neglected, unintentionally.

Most people are edging closer to starting families at 30 or later. Say you have 2 kids at 31 and 35. When you're 80 and need asistance, they are only 49 and 45 and still have to work, possibly still raising their own kids to a degree, and still have to make ends meet and are 15-20 years away from retirement. That has created a different scenario then in times past when most had their kids by early 20's, parents lived shorter lives, and most woman were essentially homemakers who would often take in their mother or mother in law near the end of life.

When you talk of other cultures, many of them still have the value systems in place we did in the 50's. The women don't work, they start younger, thus they seem better positioned to help care for their old and infirm.

Americans wanting things, big houses, lots of toys, started the trend, along with WW2 and the need for women in the workplace, then market forces made it simply necessity for both spouses to work. Now it's less about wanting things and more about needing 2 wage earners to survive, and we've paid societally for it by having children raised by absentee parents and our elderly tended to by strangers.

Ugly scenario at present, and unlikely to change unless science provides answers to living longer with a higher quality of life. 80 for me, no more unless science makes a big leap.
 
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never cared much before, thought 50 would be good...now that i have a son....forever would be nice......having my mother pass away, and having a kid, really puts shit in perspective...
i could not imagine being her, and KNOWING you are dying and not seeing your kids again.......forever is a long time....

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