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Do You Want To Live To Be 120?

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Get a new 'paper. If you were born in 1950 there's a good chance you'll outlive the Denver Post. :)
 
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pacodemountainside said:
Chart in news paper does not show but says a male born in 1950 will have life expectancy of 65.6 years and female 71.1 per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Appears a lot of us "olde" guys are on borrowed time.

http://www.denverpost.com/nationwor...=Search-www.denverpost.com-www.denverpost.com
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I never thought I wanted to live to 70 but now that im almost 67, 70 doesn't look too bad

Regarding life expectancy; the number is something of a moving target. If that 1950 baby gets to 60 his life expectancy goes beyond 65 and if he lives to 70 he will probably go to 75. And the average 90 year old still probably has a few years yet.

So don't give the young folks here any false hope. They will probably have to put up with us for several more years
 
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To your question, if I live to be 120 it means I need to plan on saving 4 times more for retirement which aint happening or I work till 100 which aint happening either unless my body continues to operate as though I am still in my 40s or 50s till 100. Nah....
 
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I don't really want to live to be 120. Besides the fact that my money will run out by then, my friends will probably as well. And who among us wants to be the last one standing, with no friends left?

The other thing is that while medical science has made great strides in the last fifty or sixty years, I feel that quality of life is often overlooked. I'd hate to be hooked up to machines, unaware or barely aware of things around me.

YMMV, of course.

Fern
 
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I want to stick around as long as most of my body is working (at least the major functions); as Fern says, when the quality of life starts dropping below a certain point, that's when it's no longer worth it. I neither want, nor can afford, to be hooked up to machines.
 
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Fern Modena said:
I don't really want to live to be 120. Besides the fact that my money will run out by then, my friends will probably as well. And who among us wants to be the last one standing, with no friends left?

The other thing is that while medical science has made great strides in the last fifty or sixty years, I feel that quality of life is often overlooked. I'd hate to be hooked up to machines, unaware or barely aware of things around me.

YMMV, of course.

Fern
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To your point about friends. I remember my father saying "all my old friends are dead" but he was always making new friends younger than he was. And he worked until the day he died. He was always hustling and making plans like he would live forever. He didn't of course. And neither did he live each day as if it was his last. He just kept living until he didn't. Which I think is the secret
to a long and productive life. Just like timeshare ... Use it or lose it
 
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Passepartout said:
Get a new 'paper. If you were born in 1950 there's a good chance you'll outlive the Denver Post. :)
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Jim:

Unfortunately Denver Post ran Rocky Mountain News out of business several years ago.

However, WSJ does make for interesting reading.

Local paper, Westward, has about 10 pages of ads for Marijuana which is more or less legal in Colorado about 5 pages for escorts and massages and a couple pages for performance enhancing drugs.

If you disagree with statistics I indicated source was Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 
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pacodemountainside said:
Jim:

Unfortunately Denver Post ran Rocky Mountain News out of business several years ago.

However, WSJ does make for interesting reading.

Local paper, Westward, has about 10 pages of ads for Marijuana which is more or less legal in Colorado about 5 pages for escorts and massages and a couple pages for performance enhancing drugs.

If you disagree with statistics I indicated source was Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The Denver Post should star running those ads that Westword has. They could use the extra advertising money to go back to a decent paper size. With the new smaller format they went to this week the comics shrunk so much that they are difficult for these old eyes to read.

As for living to 120, I don't think I'd want to do that. I already spend more time at doctor's offices than I like, I suspect that would only increase with time. No major problems this year, but new little ones seem to keep cropping up.

In terms of age, Ron listed his. I normally answer the "How old are you" question with a history test by stating that I was born three weeks before Pearl Harbor was bombed, putting us into World War II. Based on the answers I have seen on this thread, most of you will probably have a pretty good idea when that was. Younger people usually have no clue.
 
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cotraveller said:
The Denver Post should star running those ads that Westword has. They could use the extra advertising money to go back to a decent paper size. With the new smaller format they went to this week the comics shrunk so much that they are difficult for these old eyes to read.

******Agree 100%. Commuters may like, but bad news, pun intended!

As for living to 120, I don't think I'd want to do that. I already spend more time at doctor's offices than I like, I suspect that would only increase with time. No major problems this year, but new little ones seem to keep cropping up.

******Liked to brag the last time I was in hospital was when I was born, then at 61 became DOCs Mercedes

In terms of age, Ron listed his. I normally answer the "How old are you" question with a history test by stating that I was born three weeks before Pearl Harbor was bombed, putting us into World War II. Based on the answers I have seen on this thread, most of you will probably have a pretty good idea when that was. Younger people usually have no clue.
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Pretty good history grades. Would bet farm December 7, 1941 but then I was a swabie. Highly recommend memorial for any one vacationing in Hawaii. Have about 7 years on Ron!
 
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I am 78 and technically have lived in a CCRC since 2000. I say technically because I have a furnished unit at the CCRC but live alone in a duplex with my German Shepherd. I eat some meals at the CCRC and socialize with a number of the residents there. My observations are as follow:

# If one's mind is not failing, one can put up with a body that is breaking down.

# The other way around is a disaster

# IMO one is better off living independently than in a Retirement Home. Reason is that you are more active.

# I notice that those who live in the CCRC generally age faster because they are less active.

# There are many residents at my CCRC that are between the ages of 90 and 100 (both men and women, but more women) who are alert mentally and in various stages of decline physically. Of course there are also many who are unable to live independently and are on the Nursing Home floor.

Thus my take on this is that there are a lot of people out there who are living decent lives to ages between 90 and 100.
 
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I don't think I want to live to 120...but ask me when I'm 119.

Brian
 
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pacodemountainside said:
Jim:

Unfortunately Denver Post ran Rocky Mountain News out of business several years ago.

However, WSJ does make for interesting reading.

Local paper, Westward, has about 10 pages of ads for Marijuana which is more or less legal in Colorado about 5 pages for escorts and massages and a couple pages for performance enhancing drugs.

If you disagree with statistics I indicated source was Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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I don't disagree with the source but your interpretation of the figure (as per your comments about being on lots of us being on borrowed time) Lots of young men die fighting wars. doing crazy things in their youth, etc. And life expectancies at birth will be an average figure. As others have said, a sixty year old has a better change of reaching 80 than a newborn.
 
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