Would You Like to Live to be 100?

[Bri w]

Reading some of the mails i suddenly feel old. I'm halfway to the 100 and some of things you guys wish you had been part of i remember. Man walking on the moon is my big memory from the 60's - July 1969. Blasting round the Lakes on my first bike '76 to '78.

I don't get up in the morning as well as i used too. Too many broken bones and aching muscles that take a couple of hours to unwind. Don't sleep too well cos the painkillers wear off in the early hours. In pain most of the day but i still go out and do the mental stuff cos you can blank pain with adreneline.

I may not move as well as i used to but i'm in no rush to make room for anyone else. I love life, i love all the memories age brings, and i'm more focused on getting more of them cos i ain't got as much time to get them in.

Like it say below, "If you are not living close to the edge......"

Go for it!!

well for one there's almost no chance of me making it to that age, I've only had 1 grandparent make it past 65! I definitely don't want to suffer I couldn't imagine anything worse than after a wonderful life spending the last moments of it bring cared for every minute of the day.

one good thing of being that old- no peer pressure!!

but seriously I want to go like a true rockstar, leave then wanting a little bit more!

I don't think dying frightens me, but I really don't wish to die early. If I think about it too much it can get me down a wee bit, there's just so much I want to do before I go, the realisation that when the lights go out thats it sonny, no more is not a pleasant one. I hate the thought of leaving people behind who need me, I hate the thought of people being sad when I die, but I guess its natural, it happens to us all.

When I do go, I'd like it to be peaceful and quick. I dont want my last thought to be "oh no", and like others have said I really don't want to be a burden to anybody

Going by the ages of other male members of my family I'm probably over half way through my life (im 40), which is also a bit rubbish, but hopefully I can set a new record....

In summary - yes I'm happy to live to be 100, but only if I can have it all my own way!

I'd like to live for as long as I am:

- Not in pain

- of sound mind

- have all my senses intact

- am not diseased

Originally Posted by keithd

I hate the thought of leaving people behind who need me,

+1, although really its person...Maria. I don't know who else I could trust to help her out with things like phone calls and stuff. I guess the soho lot seem quite clued up on her hearing, so if I went I'd hope she would ask them for help if she needed it. They always seem to make an effort so that she understands, its really nice

I'm not sure who would miss me...i think my parents and my twin brother, I've got quite a bit closer with my mum, we tend to have quite long chats about everything, proper adult conversations. Me and my dad are best friends almost, and theres a teacher-pupil thing going on because he knows how much I love engines and will show me everything, even if no-one else finds it interesting (his work colleuges wern't intersted in a honda V4 engine with gear driven cams?!?!). Not to mention that whenever we can, we'll go for rides together. My twin brother would be sad becuse we've always been the other persons friend, we'd play lego and computer games, go for bike rides, build ramps, fight, eat dinner together, shared a bedroom and stuff. Now we play Xbox together over Xbox live

My older brother and sister I dont see so much, I know they would be sad but I'm not certain it would affect them as much. My friends come and go, so I don;t know how that group of people really feel about loosing me because no-one has really made an effort to remain friends with me, except my friends Jason and Rob whom I met in my last year of uni

Death is a subject I can't deal with when its in relation to other people. I know why people do die, the molecular reasons, the scientific reasons. But I dont understand why people HAVE to die. I've lost two people in my life that really really made my world a happier place and I don't get why it had to happen. Sometimes, when I'm having a little daydream, I'll suddenly get a pang of panic that "what if maria died? what would I do?"

Scary.

But my own death...well, if it happens it happens. I doubt I'll be aware that I'm dead anyway


sorry, bit of a waffle there....ignore it

Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

Today I met such a wonderful woman.... 100 years old next month!!

Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

she can remember being a child of 6 in 1915.

Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

She`s lived through 2 wars, one of which she worked as a volunteer ambulance driver

Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

and during the other one she was parachuted into enemy territory

Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

She had all her marbles

Are you sure????? Or did they recruit them young during the Great War???? ;o)

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

I'd like to live for as long as I am:

- Not in pain

- of sound mind

- have all my senses intact

- am not diseased

Shoot him now!

Originally Posted by Stu

Shoot him now!

*runs!*

Was at a funeral on Monday, a relative of mine was there, she is 87, she is as fit as a fiddle and will dance until the night is over with the kids bless her.

[Swin]

Originally Posted by Kinvig

Are you sure????? Or did they recruit them young during the Great War???? ;o)

Possibly WW2 and Korea, but yeah - I see what you mean from how it reads

I think if I could pick an era to be alive in it would be the 30s, but the 1930s of Jeeves and Wooster, ie moneyed rather than the post-depression, war looming type 30s other people had to live through!

I would also agree with most other people here, I'd not mind living to 100, but if I had to watch my kids and missus die before me I'm not sure there'd be too much worth hanging around for