Ceiling of the Years of our Life

My mother who raised me lived to be 97. My birthmother died when she was 25 of kidney disease. Mitch I'm seeing so many younger people in my son's and grandchildren's age ranges in the obits now that it's become unfathomable. My son and DIL lost about 10 of their friends in the last year and a half. Only one was from COVID. The others were from heart disease and cancer. A very good friend of mine died in January 2019 and 10 months later, his son who he often worried about leaving behind, passed away. I had helped him get information about his father's work account for which he was so thankful. So we seniors are not the only ones who should ponder death (and prepare for it). I sometimes wonder when I'll "kick it" and how but I don't dwell on it.
 
May be a cartoon of text that says 'Getting older is like being on a roller coaster...there are highs, lows, laughter and tears and sometimes...you just may pee your pants a little! Life aG Sez it -Feel'

I'm 82, not worried about death, it will happen when it does. In the meantime I am just enjoying what is left to me.
 
Bonnie said:
I'm trying to get into the Christmas spirit and stay there and enjoy it all, as I think that there might not be another Christmas for me.
I really feel that way .... and there's nothing sad about it at all ..just being real.


And I concur with @Ruth n Jersey on all those thoughts!
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We just decided to give gift cards this year, we can't work up any enthusiasm for decoration or any of the usual hoopla. The problem is that we have everything we can think of and our son has everything we can afford to give him, so gift cards it is!
 
I'll be sixty-five soon, and I feel that each day I live on this earth is a blessing.

I don't know when the time will come for me to leave, but like others here, am enjoying each day. The older we get, the lonelier we get because family members and friends may die before we do. I've already lost my husband from a sudden stroke, three friends to cancer, a nephew in his teens from a car accident, my father to cancer, in-laws, and others, etc. I look at photos 10-20 years ago with all these people in them, and now if I were to take the same picture, it would be a skeletal crew, and mostly made up of a handful of women. So we need to learn to cope being by ourselves (or make new friends).

At the same time, I am aware of people in my life living longer. My one aunt lived to be 96 and the other, 98. I knew some long-living men from our church. One lived to be 101, and another, more recently, 91. I don't understand how in the Bible, all these people were living long lives, and some of them up to 800 years old...I'd like to keep on living for awhile because I have so many things I still want to do in this life.....
 
The absolute saddest seeming reality about wonderful life for this person that intensely desires life, is the probability of ultimate eternal death of non-existence. That noted, it is true that the bodies of many that reach their senior years are increasingly so degenerated by aging, reducing what is possible in life, that dying at that point is not that important. Almost all would feel different if they had their 30 year old prime of life bodies. Despite reaching 73, most of my own body has not aged like 99%+ of others so I hope to keep it so as long as possible. In any case, that may just buy me an extra decade or two. The end is like an accelerating bowling ball rolling down a hill to a cliff into an eternal abyss before joining everyone else as no one gets out of here alive.

The above noted, this person very much desires meaningful worthwhile eternal life beyond physical death that I consider the greatest possible gift a loving ultimate powerful entity could offer any otherwise mortal organic entity. As a person studied in physics and neuroscience, I have a unique view that our minds are actually complex electromagnetic fields within the containers of our fleshy neurosystem brains. Unlike most, I absolutely see such as possible if a non-organic container can replicate the physical parameters those fields exist in. And the incredible bipolar molecule of water DiHydrogen Oxide given impedance modifications is a possible container for such fields that an ultimate intelligent entity given infinite time to do so might be able to create. So have faith and hope people.

Jhn 4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, ā€œEveryone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.ā€
 
I'm not sure that 90 years old will be the ceiling in the future. I'm not trying to rationalize how long I will live, but my mother lived to be 89 y/o, and she had many pre-existing conditions. She had TIAs (mini-strokes), seizures and Congestive Heart Failure. Her life was good until 87 y/o.

Medicine has advanced so much, that 90 y/o may no longer be the limit. I just hope that when I'm that age I still have a good quality of life. That makes all the difference. I don't want to just be kept alive. I want to truly live.
 
I regard death as a blessing. When we cease to exist, all our pain and suffering also cease to exist. Just imagine if we lived hundreds of years suffering terrible pain and very bad impairment forcing us to be bed ridden all that time.

ALL living organisms start life in good shape and then deteriorate as they age. In the end all organisms die.

Life, itself, is defined by eventual death.
 
Frankly, my concern ........ [since we cannot do anything about dying] is ,if I croak at home [most likely] how long will I lay here before I am discovered ? I suppose the mailman will call the police when the mail piles up.

I read somewhere that folks like me should put together a legal size envelope with contacts,directions,instructions inside. Attention police written large on the outside , and tape it up somewhere obvious.

Probably should get too that.
 
I'm 86 also. I have many Drs that are I guess keeping me alive. I remember a sermon an old pastor at a church said.
"When you're born you are given so many seconds to live" God gives you so many things to do before he takes you.

So I never worry about it. when my time is up I'll go gladly.
 
palides2021 said:
I'll be sixty-five soon, and I feel that each day I live on this earth is a blessing.

I don't know when the time will come for me to leave, but like others here, am enjoying each day. The older we get, the lonelier we get because family members and friends may die before we do. I've already lost my husband from a sudden stroke, three friends to cancer, a nephew in his teens from a car accident, my father to cancer, in-laws, and others, etc. I look at photos 10-20 years ago with all these people in them, and now if I were to take the same picture, it would be a skeletal crew, and mostly made up of a handful of women. So we need to learn to cope being by ourselves (or make new friends).

At the same time, I am aware of people in my life living longer. My one aunt lived to be 96 and the other, 98. I knew some long-living men from our church. One lived to be 101, and another, more recently, 91. I don't understand how in the Bible, all these people were living long lives, and some of them up to 800 years old...I'd like to keep on living for awhile because I have so many things I still want to do in this life.....
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Well, they didn't have Supermakets, they exercised more, they had medicine men, and didn't drive cars. LOL :)
 
Iā€™m sitting here thinking ā€œwhat can I add to this conversation?ā€. Iā€™m 82. I have minor aches and discomforts, but nothing serious that Iā€™m aware of. I tire faster than I used to, but Iā€™m still fairly mobile. I donā€™t take any prescription drugs. I know Iā€™m very lucky.

I do think about dying. Like Woody Allen once said, ā€œIā€™m not afraid of death, I just donā€™t want to be there when it happens.ā€ If I had a choice, Iā€™d just drop like a rock. But, of course, I donā€™t. Iā€™m more afraid of becoming feeble than I am of dying.

I worry more about my wife than myself. Sheā€™s 81 and she does have health problems. We have a spot in a local cemetery, and Iā€™ve told her I want the bottom bunk.

In the mean time, I try to appreciate the small pleasures that remain, like a sunny afternoon, a little chocolate ice cream, or a visit from my Granddaughter.
 
rgp said:
Frankly, my concern ........ [since we cannot do anything about dying] is ,if I croak at home [most likely] how long will I lay here before I am discovered ? I suppose the mailman will call the police when the mail piles up.
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Do you have a smartphone or device that can download apps? I have been reading about 'snugsafe', it is supposedly a free app you can have on your phone and you check in on it everyday and if you don't check in, it will send a text to whoever you have put as your emergency contact.
I have an anxious daughter who checks on me every few days, plus I am still working and probably my employer would check on me after a few days, but I plan to retire in three months and so maybe I will get the app.
One of the reviews of snugsafe was a person who said that they set the snugsafe reminder time to be when they needed to remember to take their medicine, so they were getting two convenient uses of the app that way.
 
My Mom's youngest sister passed away yesterday at 97yrs old. My Mom came from a family of 6 girls and 5 boys. They are all gone now, but 2 of her sisters lived over 100yrs old. I pray I don't live as long as any of them did. They all had to bury loved ones. I want to go before any of my loved ones.
 

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