Would You Like to Live to be 100?

i went to body combat exercise class yesterday and can hardly move today, feel like I'm 100 years old. When I was young I thought 40 was ancient, Im now 42 and it doesnt seem that old. Maybe when Im 70 Ill want to live to be 100 but no great desire at the moment. Dont know whether I want to know when Im going to die so I can plan stuff and say goodbye to people or whether I want to just go.

no! I dont want to die young and be a wasted life or anything tragic but I'm petrified of the thought of not been able to look after myself. A mid/early 70's would be nice.

Originally Posted by Kinvig

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

She said Wars, not World Wars.

[Spiderman]

I'd love to live till i'm 100yrs old but i do think people of her age saw and experienced far more in the last 100yrs than we will in the next 100yrs...if that makes any sense.

in fact i wouldn't mind being immortal just to see how this planet and its human inhabitants turn out.

Will we kill ourselves thru stupid wars?
Will we kill our planet thru miss use?
Will we ever discover life on other plants?
Will they like us, or will they destroy us?

All these questions and more will be answered on the next episode of ... SOAP.

[flymo]

amazing whats happened over the last 100 years really. wasnt much more than 100 years ago the first flight took place. Imagine seeing that progress through to the airliners, stealth fighters, space shuttles etc. You might not be able to see them, hear about them etc but thats another problem.

Hard to tell at the moment whether I'ld like to live that long, your perspective changes so much as you get older so I guess I would need to think that one through in another 40 years or so and see how I felt.

Dont particularly want to think about my life with an end date though, too much to do, too many bikes to renovate.

My Gran was 101 when she died, born in 25th Dec 1898 and passed on Jan 16th 1999, if she had lived a bit longer she would lived in 3 seperate centuries , 19th 20th and 21st, sadly she never made it, she read a newspaper every day, was a sharp as tack till the end, still went to her club 3 times a week til the end, been gone 10 years and I stil miss her.

I'd like to yes. I have a lot I'd like to do and want to spend as long as possible with my Wife and future family.

Originally Posted by Kinvig

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

oops sorry I didn`t make that very clear in my original post did I? I should have said she`s lived through 2 world wars and had an active role in 2 wars.

World war 2 she was parachuted in as a medic and the war in which she was a volunteer ambulance driver was somewhere in India when her husband was based there. When I say volunteer ambulance driver she actually drove their own vehicle in and out of there looking for casualties and then treating and transporting them to hospital.

No! It saddens me when I see 'old folks' who's bodies won't allow them to do the things that they want to do. It's even sadder when they've also lost their life partners. Getting old sucks and it scares the hell out of me. I've always been an active type and even now at the ripe old age of 43 things are getting noticeably harder. Anyway, I'm sticking my head in the sand for now and forgetting about it.

Originally Posted by madness

I've always been an active type and even now at the ripe old age of 43 things are getting noticeably harder.

Wow.... the wonders of viagra!!