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80's.
Half the patients I pick up are from nursing homes, and they're reduced to nothing but piss-and- 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.
80's.
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.
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.
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.
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 ting my pants until i hit 80, great, if not then kill me.
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.
My dads 92 and still driving. Of course there is no way in I will ride with him.
When I turn 90 I'm going to drive 90
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.
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.
It's time to go whenever I start ting my pants.
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
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
No, but I do have a sudden urge to commit genocide now that you ask.
this
pretty predictable some of you dumbasses just see old age as an unconditional ty existence. You don't know what the you'll be feeling when you get older
Pretty much my presumption, but then again see above
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.
No . 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. , i hope I live to be 110.
smh this is what I'm talking about. WHY? Is your life really so ty that you see yourself having no reason to live later on?
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 ting 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...
this pretty much details the sight at nursing homes
you work at nursing homes DD?
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.
lol no, but half the patients I pick up are from there, and they all have the same downward spiral 99.9% of the time.
you work at nursing homes DD?
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.
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