re: Why do people want to live longer?

Of course you get the downvotes from most of the posters on aging. The same ones that bitch and moan about old folks soaking up resources without producing any longer.

I'll upvote ya though. Once ALL people get into their 80's they start getting decrepit. Strange stuff ya never knew ya had starts falling off. Other stuff just stops working. If ya think old people look like Hell it's because internally they are in Hell. Reliance on someone to wipe your butt for ya, to help ya into and outta bed or a chair. Can't get out, can't do nothing without someone else doing all the work. Sit around and wait for the Grim Reaper is about it.

But the one thing the elderly can do is eat those pills and cannot run away from the needles. Suck up those pharmaceuticals and keep the industry going. Also provides jobs for dieticians, those folks have nothing outside public schools for a job anyway.

Instead of growing old and waiting death, gimme a handful of painkillers and a bottle of booze. Checkout time about 85 years old, train leaving for the great unknown. All Aboard!