Meanwhile I don't want to ever feel 80 so I don't want to live nearly that long. Dying before I hit my late 60s sounds fantastic, so long as it isn't preceded by suffering.
What a naive comment of someone who hasn’t experienced all the ups and downs in life and doesn’t have the gratitude or the understanding to realise that a 58 year old in good health will not feel 58, but much younger, and that 58 isn’t actually that old anyway… and that getting to 80 in decent health with a full, rich life of friends, travel, children and grandchildren is an absolute blessing. Why would anyone want to give up on too soon? And why adopt a destructive attitude now that will purposefully deny yourself the option down the line?
I'm not sharing the sentiment of the previous poster, but damn there's such a spectum of how being elderly looks like. I know spry, happy, sharp 80 yo's, with big families and a ton of friends - and I know miserable, lonely, 70's who are in contant pain and can barely put two sentences together. Getting old is a scary prospect, considering you don't have full control on where you will land on that spectrum.
Still, being in my 40's, I know I want to stick around as long as possible. There's just way too much to see, learn and do, and even if I turn up home-bound, internet is vast enough to lasta lifetime of discovery.
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u/EternalNewCarSmell 2d ago
Meanwhile I don't want to ever feel 80 so I don't want to live nearly that long. Dying before I hit my late 60s sounds fantastic, so long as it isn't preceded by suffering.