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AARPTeri
Community Manager
Jan 5, 2015 4:38 PM UTC

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

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 ⭐
May 31, 2020 8:50 PM UTC

105

with good health, good genes, healthy life style and excellent medical care I’m confident that I can live till 100 (67 now).  I understand after 100, each additional year is almost a geometric challenge therefore 105 is my stretched goal.

Contributor ⭐⭐
May 18, 2020 3:48 AM UTC

I'll try for 95.  I just published my fourth book on Amazon and Kindle at 92 and I've got two more to write.  It took about a year to write "There's Nothing I Can't Do - Fred's Story" so I hope to do a book a year.  As grandma used to say, "God willing and the crick don't rise." https://amzn.to/3cDKDHt 

Contributor ⭐⭐
May 17, 2020 12:34 AM UTC

245 at least !!!!

 

Sweetlassie
Contributor ⭐
May 16, 2020 9:55 PM UTC

I don't want to live past 89.

Contributor ⭐
Jun 6, 2020 9:21 PM UTC

Why 89?

Contributor ⭐
Mar 26, 2020 2:47 AM UTC

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.

Contributor ⭐
Mar 20, 2020 11:12 PM UTC

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

Contributor ⭐
Mar 20, 2020 11:10 PM UTC

100

Contributor ⭐
Mar 16, 2020 6:38 PM UTC

82

Contributor ⭐
Mar 16, 2020 6:29 PM UTC

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

Contributor ⭐
Mar 6, 2020 5:49 PM UTC

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".