@awk This’un.
Does the future contain anything other than despair? Do they ever invent painkilling drugs that aren’t bullshit?
Do I get to stop working for a living?
How about all this aging? That’s got to stop happening sometime soon, right?
@FightingMongoos I would not watch the 80th season of the Simpsons, but I would gladly watch the 8th season of the Simpsons for a hundredth time. There’s not a bad apple in that barrel.
I don’t know, but if I ever get to the point that I have to go to assisted living, I sure hope they have made it legal to euthanize people, in America.
I don’t think they’ll crack immortality in my lifetime. Maybe, but unless I manage to make it to 100 I doubt I’ll see 1000. If they do manage to figure it out while I’m still around, then I would like to live forever TYVM. If they don’t, then 80 would be my upper limit.
@rprebel they just have to keep extending our lifespans until the secret to immortality is discovered. so, it may not be discovered by the time you’re 100, but maybe by then they can extend your life to 150, and by then to 500, and by then immortality.
Hell no with 80+ with my family history shit hits the turbines at 60 and I don’t want to deal with all that! I’ll be fine with just seeing the grandkids finish high school before I check out.
@Dweezle One day at work, I was walking back from the hospital cafeteria with a plate of grits with cheese and bacon and one of the Drs asked what in the world I was eating. I told him I was on the nursing home prevention diet !
@WINTERMUTE …unless some damn family member calls 911 and EMS gets you back (albeit brain-dead) after breaking a bunch of your ribs doing CPR and transporting you to the local ER where you can have a nice (read: costly) stay in ICU on a vent while your relatives that didn’t take the time to see you while you were (relatively) healthy insist on keeping you ‘alive’ until they can get there to “see you one last time” to assuage their guilt… then countermand your organ donor wishes as well.
My goal has always been Quality vs Quantity. When the lines cross on the chart it is time to check out… So,
99 with my wits about me and still able to take care of myself - I’m OK with that.
75, post stroke and “Turn Q 2” at the nursing home… time to go.
My family history is to live into early 90’s, but if it’s like my paternal grandfather, then I want out at 60. If it’s like either of my grandmothers, then that’s fine. On the other hand, with the direction of this country and world, why would I want to continue?
I’m told that I’ll live to be 100 since my grandparents are still kickin’ around that age. Something about their Jeans. Strange - I don’t feel any different when I wear them.
Friend broke a life-long pledge to go on a mass … spree if we both made it to 30, so I’m at 38 waiting for that morning I forget to wake up.
Is laziness an exercise in preparation? If not, life will smite me another 10 years before the ALS diagnosis comes through and at that point I may as well… why was this thread started, to torture people?
I now have 1 more person on my list, looking at you @mediocrebot
From an earlier thread today, I’ve come to the conclusion that the two main people liking my posts/comments most likely don’t really like my posts/comments. Maybe it bothers me more than it should? Probably not though.
@lysdexia
Not taken as criticism. What i wished to convey was the fact that I like your posts. If I don’t, I won’t star them.
Does that seem indiscriminate? Perhaps. Or not. There are different philosophical approaches. I like this forum and its folk. I seem to be sufficiently discriminant to avoid many other forums and internet pastimes.
I do find that here, if I read thru the posts in full a 2nd or 3rd or billionth (Carl Sagan shout-out) time, the posts tend to get richer in the content that is perceivable to me.
I once thought I didn’t want to live past 30. (Was in my mid-teens). I recall, with casual and unconscious insensitivity, asking someone I knew who had just turned 33 how she could bear being so old.
But life is full of surprises, and they don’t stop. Once you get past the age brackets that films are commonly marketed to - and past the age-bracket that TV shows are commonly written for - and past the age-bracket that luxury sedans are marketed to - it can still be full of surprises. And a fair % of them can be wonderful.
If I were not in horrible straits, in pain or imprisoned or past all sentience (STFU with the easy jokes about sentience, people) something, my pref would be:
My retirement plan used to be “die at 50.” That was back when I was single. I guess I should probably come up with something more concrete now that I’m married.
My mother-in-law is turning 100 in a little over 2 weeks. Her short term memory is shot. Can’t remember if she when down for her last meal and if she does remember that she did-she can’t remember what she ate. Sad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah
@Pavlov I’m actually shocked you didn’t type “Pricks live forever”.
@MrsPavlov @Pavlov
Isn’t that a given though? I mean sure, humans like pointing out the obvious, but I’m not fully convinced @Pavlov is human based on his posts.
@TickledLizard it took me a minute to figure it out too, but he’s actually one of us.
@MrsPavlov @Pavlov
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@MrsPavlov
Only a minute? Then I won’t ask what argument he used to convince you.
Depends, do I just keep aging?
@awk This’un.
Does the future contain anything other than despair? Do they ever invent painkilling drugs that aren’t bullshit?
Do I get to stop working for a living?
How about all this aging? That’s got to stop happening sometime soon, right?
@InnocuousFarmer “Does the future contain anything other than despair?”
@thismyusername
I’m 30, but at the rate I’m going, I’m not sure I can stomach another five or ten years. Body and mind are already wrecked!
These numbers are disturbingly high. I’m aiming for like… 41? 52, tops?
@brhfl Pffft… I’m already 53; might as well shoot for 80 at this point
As long as I can either read or watch TV, I’m good with staying alive.
@melonscoop Do you really want to watch the 80th season of The Simpsons?
@FightingMongoos Sure it’s another 50 years of Simpsons, but you also get 5 more series of Sherlock.
@FightingMongoos I would not watch the 80th season of the Simpsons, but I would gladly watch the 8th season of the Simpsons for a hundredth time. There’s not a bad apple in that barrel.
@melonscoop besides… it’ll seem like the first time you saw it anyway…
@melonscoop Season 8 is the bomb!
@FightingMongoos @melonscoop
@FightingMongoos If, in the grasp of senility I got to see “You Only Move Twice” again for the first time, then I could die a happy man.
I don’t know, but if I ever get to the point that I have to go to assisted living, I sure hope they have made it legal to euthanize people, in America.
I don’t think they’ll crack immortality in my lifetime. Maybe, but unless I manage to make it to 100 I doubt I’ll see 1000. If they do manage to figure it out while I’m still around, then I would like to live forever TYVM. If they don’t, then 80 would be my upper limit.
@rprebel they just have to keep extending our lifespans until the secret to immortality is discovered. so, it may not be discovered by the time you’re 100, but maybe by then they can extend your life to 150, and by then to 500, and by then immortality.
An age younger than how I feel
∞
I’m surprised I made it to 50. Another 10-15 years is plenty
@kaighintze this. I always say I’m playing in extra time now, never expected to make it this far. (56 last week)
To whatever age is just barely younger than when I would run out of money LOL
@Kidsandliz Amen to that. I’m seeing a box under a bridge in my future.
I’m already older than I swore I would ever get to be.
@Thumperchick And we are all the richer for it…!
Thinking about this makes me kinda sad, I don’t know why.
For all time.
/giphy Tardis
Hell no with 80+ with my family history shit hits the turbines at 60 and I don’t want to deal with all that! I’ll be fine with just seeing the grandkids finish high school before I check out.
@AdmiralDave which would be another good reason not to have your kids when you are over 45…
I’ve spent my whole life building up to a heart attack at fifty so I don’t get Alzheimer’s or cancer or who knows what else later on.
@Dweezle Thank god for heart attacks!
Kinda painful but fast.
@Dweezle One day at work, I was walking back from the hospital cafeteria with a plate of grits with cheese and bacon and one of the Drs asked what in the world I was eating. I told him I was on the nursing home prevention diet !
@WINTERMUTE …unless some damn family member calls 911 and EMS gets you back (albeit brain-dead) after breaking a bunch of your ribs doing CPR and transporting you to the local ER where you can have a nice (read: costly) stay in ICU on a vent while your relatives that didn’t take the time to see you while you were (relatively) healthy insist on keeping you ‘alive’ until they can get there to “see you one last time” to assuage their guilt… then countermand your organ donor wishes as well.
@PocketBrain
My goal has always been Quality vs Quantity. When the lines cross on the chart it is time to check out… So,
99 with my wits about me and still able to take care of myself - I’m OK with that.
75, post stroke and “Turn Q 2” at the nursing home… time to go.
I intend to live forever, and if I fail, I won’t be around to be bothered by it.
@katylava
My family history is to live into early 90’s, but if it’s like my paternal grandfather, then I want out at 60. If it’s like either of my grandmothers, then that’s fine. On the other hand, with the direction of this country and world, why would I want to continue?
I’m told that I’ll live to be 100 since my grandparents are still kickin’ around that age. Something about their Jeans. Strange - I don’t feel any different when I wear them.
I was going for 37, but I’m almost 46 so I guess that’s just another fail in my life.
Can it come too soon? Not saying I’m gonna take matters into my own hands but at 37 I’ve seen enough.
I’d like to live until I’ve tried every beer.
@daveinwarsh The irony will be the beer they name in your memory…
I feel like people have a very poor understanding of what forever means.
Eventually the Earth doesn’t exist. Eventually the sun dies. But there you’ll be, floating around.
@dave On this infinite timeline, you’re bound to eventually float someplace cooler than Earth though, right?
Maybe this will be our first contact with extraterrestrial life - some misguided fool from a planet where wishes come true.
@dave …along with everyone else who got digitized.
it’s entropy that truly scares me.
@dave Finally some damn peace and quiet!
@dave
And posting at Meh.com.
@dave I’ve always been confident that I could fill a thousand years or so without trying. After that, I’m less sure…
I’m already 59 so I’m not going to say 80 and have someone throwing this in face in 21 years.
41 after things begin to suck.
Friend broke a life-long pledge to go on a mass … spree if we both made it to 30, so I’m at 38 waiting for that morning I forget to wake up.
Is laziness an exercise in preparation? If not, life will smite me another 10 years before the ALS diagnosis comes through and at that point I may as well… why was this thread started, to torture people?
I now have 1 more person on my list, looking at you @mediocrebot
It’s amazing how the older you get the older the life span you’re hoping for.
@pooflady speak for yourself.
From an earlier thread today, I’ve come to the conclusion that the two main people liking my posts/comments most likely don’t really like my posts/comments. Maybe it bothers me more than it should? Probably not though.
@lysdexia
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I can’t speak for the other party. But if you believe my stars are either cynical, or routine, you misunderstand my purposes.
@f00l Hope you didn’t take it as a criticism, I really do appreciate it. Just feeling less special is all. much love
@lysdexia
Not taken as criticism. What i wished to convey was the fact that I like your posts. If I don’t, I won’t star them.
Does that seem indiscriminate? Perhaps. Or not. There are different philosophical approaches. I like this forum and its folk. I seem to be sufficiently discriminant to avoid many other forums and internet pastimes.
I do find that here, if I read thru the posts in full a 2nd or 3rd or billionth (Carl Sagan shout-out) time, the posts tend to get richer in the content that is perceivable to me.
Short Memory? Or Long Game?
I think I wound back to the topic in this thread!
I once thought I didn’t want to live past 30. (Was in my mid-teens). I recall, with casual and unconscious insensitivity, asking someone I knew who had just turned 33 how she could bear being so old.
But life is full of surprises, and they don’t stop. Once you get past the age brackets that films are commonly marketed to - and past the age-bracket that TV shows are commonly written for - and past the age-bracket that luxury sedans are marketed to - it can still be full of surprises. And a fair % of them can be wonderful.
If I were not in horrible straits, in pain or imprisoned or past all sentience (STFU with the easy jokes about sentience, people) something, my pref would be:
And
My mom was 49 when she died. My dad was 54. I’m 48, so I figure I’m just about to hit the sweet spot.
Remember, Old Eastern European Proverb - The more you complain, the longer they make you live.
My retirement plan used to be “die at 50.” That was back when I was single. I guess I should probably come up with something more concrete now that I’m married.
My mother-in-law is turning 100 in a little over 2 weeks. Her short term memory is shot. Can’t remember if she when down for her last meal and if she does remember that she did-she can’t remember what she ate. Sad.
My plan is to about 170… around 140 when my body starts to go south, I’m going to just start living the life plenty of young people currently enjoy:
Oxycontin and Minecraft. And Taco Bell.
Until then I’m going to try and stay healthy - but the SECOND I hit 140… BOOM. Drugs and videogames; a time honored American tradition.