re: How long do you think you'll live?

Mom's sides relatives all passed away in their early 60s, dad's side late 60s but they all smoked/dipped/drank constantly/etc. their whole lives. I'm shooting for a solid 70

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Seek help

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Help for what? I have come to terms with my medical issues that are incurable. I have learned to live in chronic pain. I leave learned to live with the loss of my soul mate. I have survived a deadly situation more than once. I'm still living, still laughing, still loving and still here.

I have my family, I have my faith and I am peace with whatever may come. I have recently been blessed with the most beautiful granddaughter and and over the moon with happiness over her. I am not unhappy in life, just realistic with my eventual departure from this earth

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I do wish there were a way to "check out" in a way that the medical community could make the most of harvesting my usable organs and parts. I would have happily given my own life so that my friend who recently died of cancer could have lived.

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There is. Drive up to a hospital, call them and tell them where you are parked, what you intend to do (wouldn't want to cause a scene in the waiting room) and blow your brains out. But, before that I'd seek professional help in dealing with the real problems you are dealing with that lie below the surface. Good luck.

Very uplifting thread.

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The first bicenturion is currently living, and the first person who lives for a thousand years is estimated to be born in less than 30 years.

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This is pure speculation, we are not even close to this level of medical technology

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He seemed so serious

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I agreed with your first post. I thought the same thing growing up and perspectives always changed.

My dad thought he'd never outlive his dad that died at 47. He's still ticking at 67 and can do the same things he's always done with a low blood pressure pill or two.

I'd be happy to get to 75.

I expect to live 100 more years. I plan on dying in my 130's, I expect science to be at that point then.

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This is pure speculation, we are not even close to this level of medical technology

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Think how rapidly medicine has accelerated in 100 years. In the past few years, we've managed to create organs from scratch, like the bladder, and scientists think they may be on the verge of creating a liver (which is very good news for me ). And not artificial ones, but actual tissue. And I'm in my 20s. In my 60s, no telling how advanced medicine will be, especially with nanotechnology certainly being highly superior by then.