Do you wanna live into your 70s, 80s, 90s?

[DeadlyDynasty]

Half the patients I pick up are from nursing homes, and they're reduced to nothing but piss-and-shit factories, with vacant looks on their faces. The quality of life is gone and it looks as if they'd kill themselves if they could. Senior suicide has actually risen exponentially through the years, rivaling teenagers.

Add that your spouse and all your friends are dead or dying off and the happiness is just gone.

Unless I'm still out and about and somewhat active around that age, I think I'd rather be plant food.

Anyone else? Wild Cobra, a first-person account would be appreciated.

[Venti Quattro]

80's.

[Trill Clinton]

hell no. if i'm not dead by 60 them i'm just going to commit that. no way i want to live past late 60's.

[leemajors]

Depends entirely on drug laws for me I guess. If i can sit there eating banana bread from NOCC I think I would be fine drooling and giggling.

[The Gemini Method]

I wonder about this as well being that I saw my dad pass away from cancer in his 60s and seeing my grandma live well into her 90s. It's a perspective that, like DD said, is really questionable. Do I want to just wallow away in my own excrement and not be able to take advantage of the beauty of the world and to be self-sufficent or do I want to just live the rest of my life pining for the day I get creamated or they come and take my half eaten liver and onions away.

[monosylab1k]

once i have to wear an adult diaper or ride around in a motorized wheelchair, I want to die. If I can stay in reasonable health and not be shitting my pants until i hit 80, great, if not then kill me.

[FkLA]

If Im living an empty existence in a nursing home then probably not. If Im spending time with grandkids and other family at home I wouldnt mind.

[CosmicCowboy]

My dads 92 and still driving. Of course there is no way in hell I will ride with him.

[Blake]

My dads 92 and still driving. Of course there is no way in hell I will ride with him.

When I turn 90 I'm going to drive 90

[CosmicCowboy]

My dads 92 and still driving. Of course there is no way in hell I will ride with him.

He DOES whine all the time that all his friends are dead.

And he smells like an old man. Why do old men smell that way?

[DeadlyDynasty]

He DOES whine all the time that all his friends are dead.

And he smells like an old man. Why do old men smell that way?
Because they're rotting.

[Creepn]

Half the patients I pick up are from nursing homes, and they're reduced to nothing but piss-and-shit factories, with vacant looks on their faces. The quality of life is gone and it looks as if they'd kill themselves if they could. Senior suicide has actually risen exponentially through the years, rivaling teenagers.

Add that your spouse and all your friends are dead or dying off and the happiness is just gone.

Unless I'm still out and about and somewhat active around that age, I think I'd rather be plant food.

Anyone else? Wild Cobra, a first-person account would be appreciated.

You seem pretty depressed and a very pessimistic person right now. Do you want to kill yourself now? My point is that if you get up to that age, you'll just go trucking along with life as you're doing now.

[resistanze]

It's time to go whenever I start shitting my pants.

[desflood]

No. I told my husband, "When I turn 70, I want you to shoot me". Of course he refused, so now when I get there I'll have to find somebody else to do it. Maybe one of the kids will want the inheritance badly enough :lol

[TheRealCB]

Grandchildren...They're the only ones that can keep you "alive" when you hit 65-70 imho. If i get to 70 with no grandchildren and no real life,then yeah I don't know why it would be worth being alive..

Then again,Hugh Hefner's life seems cool :hat

[DeadlyDynasty]

You seem pretty depressed and a very pessimistic person right now. Do you want to kill yourself now?
No, but I do have a sudden urge to commit genocide now that you ask.

[CubanSucks]

You seem pretty depressed and a very pessimistic person right now. Do you want to kill yourself now? My point is that if you get up to that age, you'll just go trucking along with life as you're doing now.

this

pretty predictable some of you dumbasses just see old age as an unconditional shitty existence. You don't know what the fuck you'll be feeling when you get older


Grandchildren...They're the only ones that can keep you "alive" when you hit 65-70 imho. If i get to 70 with no grandchildren and no real life,then yeah I don't know why it would be worth being alive..

Pretty much my presumption, but then again see above

[Reck]

I wonder about this stuff all the time.

Seems to me the ones that get put in a nursing home are the heavily depressed and look all empty.

I think that's where it all starts.

If you're an active person, even in your 80s you wont feel as lonely.

With that said, I think mid 70s is all I want to aspired to.

[CosmicCowboy]

this

pretty predictable some of you dumbasses just see old age as an unconditional shitty existence. You don't know what the fuck you'll be feeling when you get older





No shit. I'll be retired, chillin out, gettin stoned and terrorizing you assholes on the internet while you work to pay for my SS and health care. Fuck, i hope I live to be 110.

[CubanSucks]

With that said, I think mid 70s is all I want to aspired to.

smh this is what I'm talking about. WHY? Is your life really so shitty that you see yourself having no reason to live later on?

[DeadlyDynasty]

No shit. I'll be retired, chillin out, gettin stoned and terrorizing you assholes on the internet while you work to pay for my SS and health care. Fuck, i hope I live to be 110.
No. Eventually you're going to fall and break your hip--at which point it all starts to go down hill.

Once you're discharged from the hospital to a rehab facility, they're going to put a catheter in you, from which you will have repeated urinary tract infections and subsequent hospital visits. This will lead to you losing your independence, at which point you will become depressed and they'll prescribe you Effexor or some other mood-altering drug, along with a narcotic or benzodiazepine.

The narcs or the benzos will make you constipated, at which point you'll be put on a diet of Colace or Sennokot, which will have you shitting your pants and further losing your independence. Then comes the adult diaper and the bed rails.

You'll become increasingly agitated and they'll have to load you up on more narcotics, causing you to fall asleep during dinner and aspirating your meatloaf--giving you pneumonia and likely having you intubated during an extended stay at the hospital.

I can go on if you'd like...

[TE]

No. Eventually you're going to fall and break your hip--at which point it all starts to go down hill.

Once you're discharged from the hospital to a rehab facility, they're going to put a catheter in you, from which you will have repeated urinary tract infections and subsequent hospital visits. This will lead to you losing your independence, at which point you will become depressed and they'll prescribe you Effexor or some other mood-altering drug, along with a narcotic or benzodiazepine.

The narcs or the benzos will make you constipated, at which point you'll be put on a diet of Colace or Sennokot, which will have you shitting your pants and further losing your independence. Then comes the adult diaper and the bed rails.

You'll become increasingly agitated and they'll have to load you up on more narcotics, causing you to fall asleep during dinner and aspirating your meatloaf--giving you pneumonia and likely having you intubated during an extended stay at the hospital.

I can go on if you'd like...

:tu this pretty much details the sight at nursing homes :lol


you work at nursing homes DD?

[Reck]

smh this is what I'm talking about. WHY? Is your life really so shitty that you see yourself having no reason to live later on?

It has nothing to do with how my life is now. As a matter of fact, I'm living the best days of my life right now. I have not a thing to worry as of this day.

That has nothing to do with me not wanting to live past 80.

By default when you get older you get lonelier and your way of life gets altered dramatically. I rather die on the spot then having to live in a nursing home.

I know what goes on in there and I want no part of that.

Its not like I would kill myself if I manage to live past the desired age so dont pretend like I dont appreciate life.

[DeadlyDynasty]

:tu this pretty much details the sight at nursing homes :lol


you work at nursing homes DD?
lol hell no, but half the patients I pick up are from there, and they all have the same downward spiral 99.9% of the time.

[TE]

yeah, i'd rather pass when my significant other is gone. at that point, if she lives that far, i'd be impotent beyond measure...no way do i wanna rely on viagra to keep me going.

[Reck]

No. Eventually you're going to fall and break your hip--at which point it all starts to go down hill.

Once you're discharged from the hospital to a rehab facility, they're going to put a catheter in you, from which you will have repeated urinary tract infections and subsequent hospital visits. This will lead to you losing your independence, at which point you will become depressed and they'll prescribe you Effexor or some other mood-altering drug, along with a narcotic or benzodiazepine.

The narcs or the benzos will make you constipated, at which point you'll be put on a diet of Colace or Sennokot, which will have you shitting your pants and further losing your independence. Then comes the adult diaper and the bed rails.

You'll become increasingly agitated and they'll have to load you up on more narcotics, causing you to fall asleep during dinner and aspirating your meatloaf--giving you pneumonia and likely having you intubated during an extended stay at the hospital.

I can go on if you'd like...

CubanSucks should read this in details.

I just finished telling the guy why old age and nursing home doesn't go hand in hand in my case.

[DeadlyDynasty]

CubanSucks knows about nothing except the size of Bilbo's dick.

[CosmicCowboy]

No. Eventually you're going to fall and break your hip--at which point it all starts to go down hill.

Once you're discharged from the hospital to a rehab facility, they're going to put a catheter in you, from which you will have repeated urinary tract infections and subsequent hospital visits. This will lead to you losing your independence, at which point you will become depressed and they'll prescribe you Effexor or some other mood-altering drug, along with a narcotic or benzodiazepine.

The narcs or the benzos will make you constipated, at which point you'll be put on a diet of Colace or Sennokot, which will have you shitting your pants and further losing your independence. Then comes the adult diaper and the bed rails.

You'll become increasingly agitated and they'll have to load you up on more narcotics, causing you to fall asleep during dinner and aspirating your meatloaf--giving you pneumonia and likely having you intubated during an extended stay at the hospital.

I can go on if you'd like...

nope. I'll be slamming Roxanol Bloody Marys long before that.

[TE]

lol hell no, but half the patients I pick up are from there, and they all have the same downward spiral 99.9% of the time.


good that you don't work there :lol

i shadowed at my local nursing home for a while and the vibe in that place isn't for youngins

[z0sa]

definitely. I've seen some strong elderly family members, including amputees, live well into their 80's and 90's. It is not the same as youth, of course, but unless you're a mental weakling or just terribly sick you still have many of the same drives.

[TheRealCB]

Hopefully Mavs win a second :lobt2:by the time I get to my 80's :lmao

[DeadlyDynasty]

nope. I'll be slamming Roxanol Bloody Marys long before that.
No, it doesn't work like that. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[baseline bum]

The day I can't walk 3 or 4 miles is the one I want to go.

[CosmicCowboy]

No, it doesn't work like that. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I was end of life caregiver for my sister that had breast cancer and it can work like that.

[DeadlyDynasty]

I was end of life caregiver for my sister that had breast cancer and it can work like that.
Was she 110? Even 70? How old was your sister, b/c your point just failed

No, she had cancer and once they decided they couldn't help her they just gave her palliative care and comfort - i.e. beaucoup pain meds

[lefty]

This thread is depressing

[CosmicCowboy]

Was she 110? Even 70? How old was your sister, b/c your point just failed

No, she had cancer and once they decided they couldn't help her they just gave her palliative care and comfort - i.e. beaucoup pain meds

I'm sorry that your job has you so jaded that you can't accept the fact that some people can live a decent quality of life well into their 80's and 90's. My parents both still drive, still live in their own home, prepare their own meals, don't shit the bed, and although they have problems getting around (hell, I'm in my 50's and have bad wheels) their minds are relatively sharp and they are happy to be alive.

[KoolAid Mans Brother]

If I am anything like Avante when I turn 60, then I give you all permission to kill me then.

[TE]

If I am anything like Avante when I turn 60, then I give you all permission to kill me then.
:lol

[DeadlyDynasty]

I'm sorry that your job has you so jaded that you can't accept the fact that some people can live a decent quality of life well into their 80's and 90's. My parents both still drive, still live in their own home, prepare their own meals, don't shit the bed, and although they have problems getting around (hell, I'm in my 50's and have bad wheels) their minds are relatively sharp and they are happy to be alive.
Congrats on the exception, and not the rule. If you already have bad wheels then good luck with that roxy-cocktail ending you so cherish. It's probably going to be metamucil and bedpans for you.

How many children do you have, btw? Once daddeh gets older, loses his independence, and becomes a burden, that love will get strained and they'll want you gone. You have money too, don't you? That even further exacerbates the problem:lol

[DeadlyDynasty]

This thread is depressing
It's about death. Try to keep up.

[lefty]

It's about death. Try to keep up.
But there is happy death too

[DeadlyDynasty]

But there is happy death too
Damn straight! Percocet milkshakes and some bloody marys, amirite?

[CosmicCowboy]

But there is happy death too

Yeah, I want to go happily in my sleep like Grandpa, not like the other people screaming in the car he was driving.

[Sa_Spursfan20]

I guess it depends in how good of health Im in. If I'm still doing pretty well, then yeah I don't mind living that long. If I'm completely senile, then smother me when Im asleep.

[DeadlyDynasty]

btw CC, I'll bet you $100 (peanuts for you, I know) that when your first parent drops, the other will follow suit within 2 months.

[CosmicCowboy]

btw CC, I'll bet you $100 (peanuts for you, I know) that when your first parent drops, the other will follow suit within 2 months.

If it's my mom, yeah.

if it's my dad, not so sure. Moms tough and already talking about what she will do when dads gone.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Moms tough and already talking about what she will do when dads gone.
:lolHe must love those conversations.

[The Gemini Method]

I watched my dad slowly die at a young age (around Avante's 65) and I don't want that either. If I were to be facing a decidedly terminal future, I don't know I wouldn't just put my Glock to my feeble head and end it. Getting old is already tough and I'm not even that far removed from 30. Anyhow, I see where DD is getting at and not too many people get the George Burns way out. I just hope that maybe the streets of Long Beach/L.A. will take me first, cuz.

[CubanSucks]

CubanSucks should read this in details.

I just finished telling the guy why old age and nursing home doesn't go hand in hand in my case.

And if I were rich with a beautiful wife and 2 perfect kids the thought of the life I currently have would make me think that I wouldn't want to keep going. But somehow I'm getting buy and magically I'm still happy. It's all relative.


Congrats on the exception, and not the rule. If you already have bad wheels then good luck with that roxy-cocktail ending you so cherish. It's probably going to be metamucil and bedpans for you.

Who writes these fucking rules, dumbass? For every depressed senior citizen you've come across I'd be willing to bet there's 2 that are completely happy with their lives. Is it that hard to imagine people being stoic about their lives?



How many children do you have, btw? Once daddeh gets older, loses his independence, and becomes a burden, that love will get strained and they'll want you gone. You have money too, don't you? That even further exacerbates the problem:lol

:lmao This is just plain as day projecting right here. It sucks you've had such bad experiences but my experience with older people have been completely fine. And don't give me the bullshit about your job. You have no more of an insight on the general lives of old people as a Chuck E Cheese employee would have on children. You see them at their worst

[CubanSucks]

It's obvious the difference in opinion ITT is based on expectations. Some of us assume we're gonna live a happy life and others assume it's all gonna go to shit. Bottom line, this thread just seems to be a way for DD to mope and whine about his depressing life while getting defensive seeing people have good experiences with grandparents and such

[ohmwrecker]

I'm willing to bet that a good percentage of you have already shit yourselves as adults.

[The Gemini Method]

This shit is moot anyhow...Remember, Remember the 12th of December...

[DeadlyDynasty]

Once again, CubanSucks offers an opinion that nobody cares about.

[Reck]

This shit is moot anyhow...Remember, Remember the 12th of December...

Isn't it November? lol

[LnGrrrR]

Half the patients I pick up are from nursing homes, and they're reduced to nothing but piss-and-shit factories, with vacant looks on their faces. The quality of life is gone and it looks as if they'd kill themselves if they could. Senior suicide has actually risen exponentially through the years, rivaling teenagers.

Add that your spouse and all your friends are dead or dying off and the happiness is just gone.

Unless I'm still out and about and somewhat active around that age, I think I'd rather be plant food.

Anyone else? Wild Cobra, a first-person account would be appreciated.

I really really really hope I'm one of those 70 year old who isn't like this.

[cantthinkofanything]

I was the only child and had to take care of both my parents. Mom got Alzheimer's in her 50's. Dad became physically disabled in late 60's. So, neither could really take care of each other. For about 10 years, I had to take care of them myself with help from my wife. This involved putting much of my life on hold and passing up good jobs/opportunities that were not local. And even though I can look back and remember all of the good times I had with them and the things they did for me when I was younger, it's impossible to completely separate it from those last 10 years which provided some pretty sad memories and associations.

I would definitely want to pass on before it got to a situation where I was a burden on my daughter or wife. Regardless of how willing either might be at the time to put her life on hold and take care of me. And I sure don't want them to remember me as some old invalid that they had to feed, clean, and care for. Not for a second.

[CosmicCowboy]

I was the only child and had to take care of both my parents. Mom got Alzheimer's in her 50's. Dad became physically disabled in late 60's. So, neither could really take care of each other. For about 10 years, I had to take care of them myself with help from my wife. This involved putting much of my life on hold and passing up good jobs/opportunities that were not local. And even though I can look back and remember all of the good times I had with them and the things they did for me when I was younger, it's impossible to completely separate it from those last 10 years which provided some pretty sad memories and associations.

I would definitely want to pass on before it got to a situation where I was a burden on my daughter or wife. Regardless of how willing either might be at the time to put her life on hold and take care of me. And I sure don't want them to remember me as some old invalid that they had to feed, clean, and care for. Not for a second.

This

[Koolaid_Man]

Half the patients I pick up are from nursing homes, and they're reduced to nothing but piss-and-shit factories, with vacant looks on their faces. The quality of life is gone and it looks as if they'd kill themselves if they could. Senior suicide has actually risen exponentially through the years, rivaling teenagers.

Add that your spouse and all your friends are dead or dying off and the happiness is just gone.

Unless I'm still out and about and somewhat active around that age, I think I'd rather be plant food.

Anyone else? Wild Cobra, a first-person account would be appreciated.

When my dick will no longer kick..when the days of possessing a golden big black boner becomes a thing of the past.... when not even taking 3 super bull Viagara pills will work...when I start busting blanks then it will be time. Until then I'm going to take Cully's advice and squeeze every ounce of juice out my dick that I possibly can.
Other than that I calculated that I should die around the year 2075...

[RandomGuy]

Half the patients I pick up are from nursing homes, and they're reduced to nothing but piss-and-shit factories, with vacant looks on their faces. The quality of life is gone and it looks as if they'd kill themselves if they could. Senior suicide has actually risen exponentially through the years, rivaling teenagers.

Add that your spouse and all your friends are dead or dying off and the happiness is just gone.

Unless I'm still out and about and somewhat active around that age, I think I'd rather be plant food.

Anyone else? Wild Cobra, a first-person account would be appreciated.

As long as I have an active mind.

I hope to live long enough to see the Singularity and download my consciousness into the communal hivemind.

[ALVAREZ6]

DD, you seem pretty emo/depressed lately tbh

[ALVAREZ6]

As long as I'm relatively healthy, I want to live as long as possible. Once my health goes to absolute shit, I'll probably experiment with a lot of drugs.

[Wild Cobra]

Half the patients I pick up are from nursing homes, and they're reduced to nothing but piss-and-shit factories, with vacant looks on their faces. The quality of life is gone and it looks as if they'd kill themselves if they could. Senior suicide has actually risen exponentially through the years, rivaling teenagers.

Add that your spouse and all your friends are dead or dying off and the happiness is just gone.

Unless I'm still out and about and somewhat active around that age, I think I'd rather be plant food.

Anyone else? Wild Cobra, a first-person account would be appreciated.
WTF...

A first person account from me?

I have no firsthand accounts. I have dated a CNA that used to work at one of these homes. It was real hard on her. Even before seeing the effect on her, it was always my intent not to be kept artificially alive, or drugged up.

I am at peace with life and death. I think the travesty is that these people are often being kept alive past their time to go.

[Wild Cobra]

This shit is moot anyhow...Remember, Remember the 12th of December...
You mean the 21st?

[DeadlyDynasty]

DD, you seem pretty emo/depressed lately tbh

Was it my death and broken relationships threads?

[rascal]

No. I told my husband, "When I turn 70, I want you to shoot me". Of course he refused, so now when I get there I'll have to find somebody else to do it. Maybe one of the kids will want the inheritance badly enough :lol

70 is not that old nowadays.

[DeadlyDynasty]

I've been listening to The Cure and Smiths a lot lately.

[DMC]

As long as CoD keeps putting out new games, I will probably stick around. When that stops, even if it's this year, I'm ready to check out.

[DMC]

When my dick will no longer kick..when the days of possessing a golden big black boner becomes a thing of the past.... when not even taking 3 super bull Viagara pills will work...when I start busting blanks then it will be time. Until then I'm going to take Cully's advice and squeeze every ounce of juice out my dick that I possibly can.
Other than that I calculated that I should die around the year 2075...
Too bad, your shtick died some time ago.

[ElMuerto]

Why stop at 90...?

[redzero]

I've been listening to The Cure and Smiths a lot lately.

:lol I was about to ask you if you've been listening to Morrissey.

[mingus]

The moment I can't get up and do what I like to do/stay active I will want to die. Which basically means the moment I can't drive and go to places.

[ALVAREZ6]

Was it my death and broken relationships threads?

I suppose

[lakerhaterade]

As long as I have an active mind.

I hope to live long enough to see the Singularity and download my consciousness into the communal hivemind.

You're a weird dude

[Reck]

The hivemind? Did you get that from Dead Space? :lol

[Wild Cobra]

As long as I have an active mind.
Quadriplegic on a respirator is OK with you?

I hope to live long enough to see the Singularity and download my consciousness into the communal hivemind.
Like the Borg?

[Latarian Milton]

you never really appreciate your life if you've never got close to death tbh. death is a horrible thing that you'll never want to be anywhere near it if you know what it actually means. it's like the end of the world for you when you die, while the younger people will continue to live and see what's happening the next day, next year and next decade. just don't understand how some guys manage to talk about death in such a cynical manner tbh, if you got an impulse to commit suicide and drink some sustained-release poison that will kill you in a few hours w/o any possibility of cure, your gonna regret doing it the first minute after you swallow it down your throat

it really sucks to live as a smelly shit when you lose the ability to take care of yourself, w/o control of even your urination and defecation, and that's why it's a vital point to maintain a good health and live a healthy style of life imho. there're people who can live well into their 90s or even one hundreds and live independently, gene might be a factor for the length of life but that ain't all

[slick'81]

long as i can get it up

[SnakeBoy]

you never really appreciate your life if you've never got close to death tbh. death is a horrible thing that you'll never want to be anywhere near it if you know what it actually means. it's like the end of the world for you when you die, while the younger people will continue to live and see what's happening the next day, next year and next decade. just don't understand how some guys manage to talk about death in such a cynical manner tbh, if you got an impulse to commit suicide and drink some sustained-release poison that will kill you in a few hours w/o any possibility of cure, your gonna regret doing it the first minute after you swallow it down your throat

it really sucks to live as a smelly shit when you lose the ability to take care of yourself, w/o control of even your urination and defecation, and that's why it's a vital point to maintain a good health and live a healthy style of life imho. there're people who can live well into their 90s or even one hundreds and live independently, gene might be a factor for the length of life but that ain't all

^This

[The Reckoning]

i want to live long enough to where they transplant my brain into a robot and keep it stablized with blood.

other than that, once i hit 100 ill kick the can.

or...ill die really young. hopefully by doing something insane like "woah, did you hear that The Reckoning died by ubiquitous chode explosion :smchode:?"

[symple19]

i want to live long enough to where they transplant my brain into a robot and keep it stablized with blood.

other than that, once i hit 100 ill kick the can.

or...ill die really young. hopefully by doing something insane like "woah, did you hear that The Reckoning died by ubiquitous chode explosion :smchode:?"

you're a tool

[Viva Las Espuelas]

as long as i can wipe my own ass, i'll be happy with the amount of time i'm given.