I don't want to live past 70. Anyone else ?

Oris79 said:
I'm 43, married with kids. I got a good job, love my family and friends.
Yet, I have absolutely no desire to live past 70. Even now I can feel the energy and vitality of my youth has faded, and it's not going to get easier to maintain regardless of how much I exercise or eat right. There's nothing appealing about life after 70 in that I don't care to sit at home all day or go to the casino, or live with limited mobility. The idea of living to enjoy my retirement years and seeing grandkids sounds great, but I just can't get over the fact I'd an old man. Like, what's the point ?

I figure, why not live for the moment, buy the nicer car, stop saving for retirement, go on the vacations, drink and eat merry and then just off myself when I turn 70 ? I value quality over quantity and I notice that I'm having to spend less now in order to save more money in hopes that I'll live long enough to retire with a respectable income. At 43, I should be going on vacations now and doing fun things while my body still holds up. Yet I put away $900/month towards my retirement every month - and for what ? So I enjoy my 70s and maybe 80s ?

What say you ?
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Midlife crisis? Facing your mortality for the first time?

Go full cliche and buy the red Porsche and date younger women.









...shit
 
Ponchik said:
I don't either. Living in pain and poverty, and being a burden to my family scares me.

The average lifespan of men in my country is 68, and my dad passed away at 59, so short life is in my genes.

Fingers crossed.
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Now this is the kind of upbeat, unbridled optimism that sherdog has been missing...
 
My grandpa was born in 1930, and life seems pretty frustrating for him. The worst part is he’s still pretty sharp upstairs, but moving around is a struggle and his hearing has been pretty bad for the past 5-10 years. I think he’s just too stubborn to die.
 
HelloJapan said:
See how you feel at 70. That being said, we always have a choice...

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That's what Hunter Thompson did. Said that he didn't want to live once this health started becoming an issue, and end up a burden on anyone. So when he turned 67 he took matters into his own hands.
 
It's all perspective, you have an old way of thinking with that retirement talk

Another way of seeing it is, you are stacking up for a fancy robot suit for when AI takes over and we transfer our consciousness
 
Looking how my grandparents died, 60 is enough for me

TeTe said:
That's what Hunter Thompson did. Said that he didn't want to live once this health started becoming an issue, and end up a burden on anyone. So when he turned 67 he took matters into his own hands.
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Not many have had their ashes fired from a cannon
 
I don’t expect to live beyond my fifties. Apparently my family doesn’t expect me to last that long either. They’re always talkin’ “when you die I want this n this, but I’m taking the rest to the dump”. Even my mother.

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Of course I didn’t expect to see my thirties either so perhaps life has more disappointments in store for me.

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Lol at living to seventy. Good Christ.
 
I know every generation thinks they are twice as smart as the last...but there are lots of old bastards around and I've got to imagine many of them had the same thoughts about their approaching old age. I've heard many people get happier in their senior years (of course I don't mean when they can't wipe their own ass anymore)...something about having a better perspective and not taking life so seriously. Maybe that's why the aged carry on, because they've just gotten to the part when they feel like they don't have the world on their shoulders anymore.
 
Lots of guys in their 70s that are more active and in better shape than a typical 30yo.
 
Get some test and primobolan, keep your flexibility up. 70 isn't really old. There's members at my course that age still ripping 280 drives, vacationing all the time and loving life.
 
FFS u guys stop being tired old men

Go for a walk get your blood flowing and stop being lazy

My grandfather was chopping and moving insane amounts of wood at 85 just to help a much younger friend

Damn sherdog get some pep in your step
 
I'm 44 and have been in constant pain for 20+ years.

I don't want to be in pain for another 20+ years and I don't have a lot of reason to think that I won't be in pain for the rest of my life since the situation has been getting worse over time. I have had multiple very highly qualified shoulder surgeons tell me I should expect to be in pain for the rest of my life.

Maybe something will change.

It's weird how this world and society seems to think that you owe it to the world to live as long as possible even if your quality of life sucks.
 
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Oris79 said:
I'm 43, married with kids. I got a good job, love my family and friends.
Yet, I have absolutely no desire to live past 70. Even now I can feel the energy and vitality of my youth has faded, and it's not going to get easier to maintain regardless of how much I exercise or eat right. There's nothing appealing about life after 70 in that I don't care to sit at home all day or go to the casino, or live with limited mobility. The idea of living to enjoy my retirement years and seeing grandkids sounds great, but I just can't get over the fact I'd an old man. Like, what's the point ?

I figure, why not live for the moment, buy the nicer car, stop saving for retirement, go on the vacations, drink and eat merry and then just off myself when I turn 70 ? I value quality over quantity and I notice that I'm having to spend less now in order to save more money in hopes that I'll live long enough to retire with a respectable income. At 43, I should be going on vacations now and doing fun things while my body still holds up. Yet I put away $900/month towards my retirement every month - and for what ? So I enjoy my 70s and maybe 80s ?

What say you ?
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My dad is almost 80 and he still gets around fine. Just wish mom hadn’t kept fucking smoking. She’s been gone going on ten years at this point (7 already).
You could be this guy deadlifting 405 for 3 at 90
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life is beautiful. You just want to piss yours away with other people’s approval. While I get it, fuck that. I’m taking every healthy second I’ve got.
 
I might want to be a cyborg... with fully functioning pee pee.
 
Your right about how retirement is kinda like Lucy holding the football it's mean to make younger people accept oppression in the name of a light at the end of the tunnell that doesn't exist. If you're in a favorable situation at all that idea seems nonsencial it's simply an oppressive tool to use on those who aren't.

I don't think anyone wants to die at 70(climate change and stuff like that nonwithstanding) but you should not be viewing your 60s and 70s as your "golden years". That's assanine.
 
If you're still relatively healthy and active, why wouldn't you?

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