How long do you think you will live?

Average in your lifestyle decisions, dietary, and family health history...think of a number.


How do you think you will die?

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Have you made or thinking about making, or even sat down and had a real conversation about a Living Will or what you would want in old age vegetable portion of your life?

Have you talked to or know any vivacious elderly people who are 80 and walking 5 miles a day - what kind of things do they tell you?

Or have you been around an elderly person on their way "out"? Have you witnessed any odd phonemonia... like ghosts, or really believed in their talking about talking to dead people and seeing white lights etc... ?

Experiences, discuss.

If I live past 65 I'll be amazed.

86

If I live past 57, then 100 will be do.

I just don't care.

65 to 90

some time ago, i came across a site on the net that you could put all the info into, and it would calculate your approx age of death.

for those who're really keen, there was a little countdown thingy you could download onto your desktop to remind you as it clicked over the last years/days to your doom.

wierd stuff.

anyway, turns out i'm going to live to a ripe old age of 93.

69, good number to go out on.

Matter of fact, that's what I'll probably die of.

"Yes, He came... Then he went..."

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I was talking to someone about death today, and these are just a few things that came up. Feel free to contribute anything you want - including near death experiences and visions.

I haven't really thought about death yet, to be honest. I don't really have anything or anyone to will things to, so it's not really a priority to me. Hope it's quick?

i have a will, a good life insurance policy, funeral insurance and an enduring guardianship (for if i can't make medical decisions for myself.)

all ready to go - just waiting for death.

I'm thinkin 89 but I might hit 95. I'm thinkin' it may go limp at 90 so if thats the case I'm callin' Kevorkian.

Moonlust said:

I haven't really thought about death yet, to be honest. I don't really have anything or anyone to will things to, so it's not really a priority to me. Hope it's quick?

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This seems to be the norm amongst Americans and other cultures that the elderly are seperated and put in homes to live out the rest of their lives. It isn't something we have to deal with right now, so why even put any thought into it... but there still is that nagging "what if... there was an accident" etc.. that seems to keep us on our toes.
And even though we are on our toes, many wont make lifestyle changes to save themselves from a cause of death... until it is a serious problem. Excorsize, eating correctly are just a small factor of what we could do to save ourselves from dieing earlier then we expect to.
Lets not forget alot of people aren't spiritually fullfilled through out their lives, and seem to cram for St. Peter's finals towards the end of their lives and pressure others to do the same.

Long enough to piss a few more people off.

Ah the noble pursuit of death.

It can not be avoided, so why not embrace it.

If death has an incarnation, what will you offer him to spare you?

I'll offer anal sex.

BlueSugar said:

This seems to be the norm amongst Americans and other cultures that the elderly are seperated and put in homes to live out the rest of their lives. It isn't something we have to deal with right now, so why even put any thought into it... but there still is that nagging "what if... there was an accident" etc.. that seems to keep us on our toes.
And even though we are on our toes, many wont make lifestyle changes to save themselves from a cause of death... until it is a serious problem. Excorsize, eating correctly are just a small factor of what we could do to save ourselves from dieing earlier then we expect to.
Lets not forget alot of people aren't spiritually fullfilled through out their lives, and seem to cram for St. Peter's finals towards the end of their lives and pressure others to do the same.

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I'm 24. I'm working on the living part instead

BlueSugar said:

Average in your lifestyle decisions, dietary, and family health history...think of a number.


How do you think you will die?

edited to add:
Have you made or thinking about making, or even sat down and had a real conversation about a Living Will or what you would want in old age vegitable portion of your life?

Have you talked to or know any vivacious elderly people who are 80 and walking 5 miles a day - what kind of things do they tell you?

Or have you been around an elderly person on their way "out"? Have you witnessed any odd phonemonia... like ghosts, or really believed in their talking about talking to dead people and seeing white lights etc... ?

Experiences, discuss.

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I'm going for 60 - anything after that is cake. It could be heart, it could be cancer and it could be dementia sequela...

The Advanced Directive is actually trying to target young people, although it's a very good thing for old people to have. Anyone on this board should have the conversation. Both the husband and I have one.

I work with older, healthy people. One, gave up driving at 90 and walked to the store until 98, when she just didn't feel safe anymore. She died of a new heart arrhythmia at just under 100. Nothing wrong with her until that - she fell, broke her hip and died 3 days later.

She had a great life.

Most of the older folk who make it that long just have good genes. They're healthy until their bodies shut down for one reason or another.

Been around a lot of dying people. Most of them start long before they actually die. Who's to say what their experiences are? I've seen living people talking to their dead, I do it, now. I don't discount their experience of the white light phenomena, but I also leave it as theirs. Depending on their own spiritual belief, they get to define it and I will support whatever they decide to call it.

One of the things I have found is that dying people usually "rally" and say good bye, depending on what is left of their brain at the time of death.

Having worked with so many people with dementia over the years, I guess that is my biggest concern regarding my own dying. If I develop a dementia, the husband, and my other designated health care decision maker, knows no treatment. I want it to progress as quickly as possible and I want to leave as quickly as possible. I've seen the light on that one.

Seriously? Probably not much longer after 40.

I will live to be 103 and I will die in the midst of a soul-wrenching orgasm, buried deep in the snug cooter of a nubile young 40 yr. old on the bed of a studio apartment on the Moon.

I will die at age 80 of a brain tumour

I'm a pessimist when it comes to age. At this point, I'll be surprized to make it past 40.

mstryninja said:

I will die at age 80 of a brain tumour

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Better than the freezer bag belt attachment.

I'll live to my mid 80's and die of a heart attack.

DevilishTexan said:

Better than the freezer bag belt attachment.

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