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AARPTeri
Community Manager
January 5, 2015

How long do you want live? 80, 90, 100?

  • January 5, 2015
  • 229 replies
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Do you have a number in mind? Do you want to live to be 80, 90 or 100? How about 115 or 120?

Do you think it matters what your expectations are? I do. I think if you expect to live a long healthy life, your chances of doing so are greater.

229 replies

Contributor ⭐
February 16, 2020

90 seems like a good comporomise between the wonder of discovery and the boredom with life's  adventures. I only hope that GOD provides me with all my conscious faculties when I go, because it's tragic when you can't use your senses or if you lose your functional mobility before you die.

Contributor ⭐
February 16, 2020

Attitude matters... A positive attitude can lengthen your life.

Contributor ⭐
March 6, 2020

80. So I am entering what may be my final decade. I intend to speed up the bucket list because if I don't get it done this decade, chances are that mountain view will remain a "wish I had done that".

Contributor ⭐
March 16, 2020

100+!!!!!...If not suffering...God Willing!!!!!

Contributor ⭐
March 16, 2020

82

Contributor ⭐
March 20, 2020

100

Contributor ⭐
March 20, 2020

As long as possible. I'll shoot for 100 years of age or older.

Contributor ⭐
March 26, 2020

It is my intention to live to 100, since I am now 93, and will be 94 June 26 of this year. I am in good shape physically, continue to exercise daily, walk without a cane or other assistance. Very slight arthritis in each thumb and some in toes. My mind is clear, occasionally forgetting a celebrities name, a common thing in my residence in a leisure care facility. I still drive a car and have eyesight to have a drivers license with no restrictions. I write on my "travels blog" on my computer nearly each day and read non-fiction mostly on "quantum" science, aging, psychology and others. Good, nutricious food, staying relatively stress free through meditation, naps, and other activities keep me healthy and happy. Experiencing the death of two wives, the last six years ago, but meeting a new significan other at our mutual residence is really great for older people. Perhaps living to 100 is a restricted goal! I hope so.

Sweetlassie
Contributor ⭐
May 16, 2020

I don't want to live past 89.

Contributor ⭐
June 6, 2020

Why 89?

Contributor ⭐⭐
May 17, 2020

245 at least !!!!