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how long would you like to live?

.lava

.lava

Veteran Member
maybe it is silly but this is the question i can't answer. my path is difficult and it takes time to complete it. i would be sad if i did not. but on the other hand i see very old people becoming babies again. that's scary too. what about you? do you think having a long life is a blessing? or is it a very difficult test?



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Halcyon

Halcyon

Lord of the Badgers
For as long as my body allows me to live a relatively normal life, so that I can move about by myself and don't need an adult diaper.

Hopefully 80-85 if all is good.
 
Charity

Charity

Let's go racing boys !
As you grow older unfortunately so does your body.....Some people reach a point due to illness and old age, (senile) that they become confused, disoriented, unreasonable, even the smallest task becomes difficult for them....I really would prefer to be graciously taken by death than to be reduced to this former shell of myself. I would prefer to live as long as possible providing that I can enjoy some quality of life and retain some diginity and self worth.....
 
BucephalusBB

BucephalusBB

ABACABB
I am going to become 120 years old.

I have been telling my friends that for years, so I have to :D
ofcourse, my mind will stay sane untill I am 120 years and everybody around me as well :D

On a more serious note, it's not really a question on how old I am going to become. Sane is a better word I think.
I don't have a path, that is, I am running a path right now ofcourse, but my future path is not set by myself. So there is no time needed to complete either.
 
Kungfuzed

Kungfuzed

Student Nurse
If I got to choose what age to be I'd have no trouble living indefinitely. But I wouldn't want to live forever as an aging old man. I'd end up like the crypt keeper. It really all depends on my health and quality of life. I'm hoping they'll find a way to reverse aging in the next 50 years. If they find a cure for alltimers, parkinson's, and most cancers in the next 30 years I'll live to be 100 easily.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Seeing Hootie play at Billy Bob's made me wish that I was dead.
 
.lava

.lava

Veteran Member
Bouncing Ball said:
I am going to become 120 years old.

I have been telling my friends that for years, so I have to :D
ofcourse, my mind will stay sane untill I am 120 years and everybody around me as well :D

On a more serious note, it's not really a question on how old I am going to become. Sane is a better word I think.
I don't have a path, that is, I am running a path right now ofcourse, but my future path is not set by myself. So there is no time needed to complete either.
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120? fine with me :D
my grandfather and grandmother, they both passed away (only with 4 months difference) they both stayed with my family cos my mom took care of them. grandpa was math teacher and he was sane till the end but he was not able to walk around. grandma was history teacher and she did not know herself but she was moving very fast with small steps and she was really cute. maybe without knowing they did teach me something else. don't ignore history while studying maths :p God bless them! remembering my grandpa, he was always solving math problems lying in his bed. he always worked his mind. i admire that. but it was very difficult for him to lay down all day.



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feather

feather

Member
I'd like to live over the age of 100. God willing of course. But I would like to be in relatively good health. A long life can be a blessing, but it can also be a test which will get rewarded in the next world.
 
DallasApple

DallasApple

Depends Upon My Mood..
I have no idea how long I want to live...

I know what you mean though about some eldery living long enough to become babies again..

My 94 year old grandmother is like that...Oh she walks and talks...and eats and sleeps ..she laughs and has interest....

But she is like an infant..Physically and emotionally...and more and more mentally...She is not mean or hateful..she is sweet as can be..but she is demanding...

She is living with my mother..and she follows my mother around..and is constantly asking her what she is doing.. and wants her to listen 90% of the time about people who have been dead for 40-50-60-and 75 years ago.same stories over and over ....or tell you over and over and over again that she has to drink sweet milk to be able to sleep...

She is legally blind..So she will just point at things and say "what is that"..you say its a flower pot..and she says "oh"..."what is that"...and you say..."thats a bag of potatos" and she says "oh"....then she says "what is that"...and you say "thats a candle"..and then she says "who is that over there". ..ETC.....

She cant be left alone..You have to fix her food for her and watch her eat..she has a collapsed trachea and is at risk of choking..

Just little things like wanting cornbread every single day ...or insisting she needs to buy a head of cabbage when she is at the store with Mama regardless that there are 2 heads already at home going bad..you will look down and realize her leg is bleeding through her pants..She has no idea ..and turns out she has scratched at herself so hard she has blood running down her leg and doenst even know it....

She also tells you every single day at least several times now she needs to get back home..She will ask you how much a plane ticket is to B-ham..You say..I dont know Grandmother ..its changes ..and she wil say she needs to find out so she can go there..As if she could just hop on a airplane and go home to an old empty house with no one there to care for her..She says this knowing full good and well its absolutely not realistic..In fact ..if my mother let her do that ..the state could bring charges against her for elderly neglect..

There is not one thing that I can single out to describe that makes her seem so childlike..

Love

Dallas
 
Phasmid

Phasmid

Mr Invisible
.lava said:
maybe it is silly but this is the question i can't answer. my path is difficult and it takes time to complete it. i would be sad if i did not. but on the other hand i see very old people becoming babies again. that's scary too. what about you? do you think having a long life is a blessing? or is it a very difficult test?



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I have 3 objectives while on this earth:

1. Get laid

2. Grow a beard

3. Join an armed force

So... if I do all those things and die quickly and painlessly, I couldn't care less how old I am.
 
trinity2359

trinity2359

Active Member
Phasmid said:
I have 3 objectives while on this earth:

1. Get laid

2. Grow a beard

3. Join an armed force

So... if I do all those things and die quickly and painlessly, I couldn't care less how old I am.
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OK.... not sure what to make of that - if you're serious, you got some problems LOL

I would like to live forever, my to-do list is far more extensive, and I am glad my faith permits that :). On earth, however, I would like to be my grandmother who passed at the age of 93. It was only in the last few years of her life that her mobility was limited, incontinence problems, and memory issues intruded on her otherwise very active life. She traveled to China at the age of 85, was active in numerous community groups and didn't really 'retire' from her tax accountancy business until age 80. She walked a mile everyday and didn't gripe about aches and pains and all the pills she had to pop. Yep, I wanna be her when I get old!
 
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