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The most striking thing I ever read on aging:

From a geriatric,

Life is kind of like taking a nice long shower. When you're young, it feels good and invigorating. But as you get older, it's like they just keep turning down the hot water until there's nothing good about it anymore, but you're still now allowed to get out.

My mother was in her 70's, diabetes, bad stroke in her 50's, heart problems, kidney problems creeping in. She had been in the ER life or death quite a few times. Hearing was marginal, vision was marginal, most of her diet needed to be bland and blended smooth.

"If I go in again and they need to do something to save me, just let me go, promise me that, I'm miserable all the time and there's nothing left they can do for me to make it any better."

Well I remember my friend's grandfather. He was over 90 and he was having health problems. They were taking him to emergency even though he didn't wanted. One day I helped him out of the car after another emergency visit, asked him how he is... He spit on the ground and said "I couldn't fucking die today either!". I was young so, it was weird for me. After all these years I understand him now. I'm not a believer but I hope he is resting in peace.

120 is my goal. I want to be able to say i can remember the 1900s, 2000s and see what 2100 looks like.

Ain't doing it without scientific help, but there is very very small chance I could get there.

Yes younglings, I remember a time when the internet didn't exist!

Yeah. My grandmother is in that situation. She is a grandmother to me but she's a great great grandmother for some of my family.

She moved in a nursing home more than a decade ago expecting to be there for a few years but she's now 98, losing eyesight, hearing and mobility, and hopes it will end at some point. When she caught covid we thought she might have got what she wanted, but no.

Reminds me of an old Nick Swardson joke.

"How are you doing grandma?" "Well I woke up again.. and all of my friends are dead."

In the bible Methuselah loved till 939 years old

Can you imagine how fed up he was getting out of bed in the morning

Every day would be ground hog day

Obligatory age research finding: those 100+ year olds may not be 100+ years old after all.

Take care of yourself and your older years don't need to be shitty. Look at Dick Van Dyke. I know you'll say "but he has money", and that's certainly part of it, but he also kept dancing and exercising, and didn't abuse his body with drugs and shitty food.

The best time to clean up your diet, reject drugs and alcohol, and start exercising is when you're a teen. The second best time is right now. No one can do it for you.

Obviously, this doesn't work for everyone, there are always exceptions.

Genuinely scary to think that I might only be 50% of the way through my life. I was looking forward to a nice rest.

My father rn, only in his late eighties. Slowly letting himself die, won't do anything to help himself or let us help him except bring food and wine and do his shopping. Literally ran out of tp and used paper towels instead of going out and buying some. And he can drive and get around but won't for most basic shit. Fucking tiring shit

I will be legitimately upset if I make it past the world average, much less 40 years past that.

You might be immortal. The only way you'd find out you're not is if you die.