How Old Would You Like To Be When You Die?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Poll question: How Old Would You Like To Be When You Die?

If you could pick the age you'd check out by, what would it be?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. I'd like to be very...

[RebelOne]

2. All the women on my mother's side live till their '80s

but I just hope to make it into my mid-70s. I smoke which is shortening my life span. But I have plans to quite, since the price of cigarettes has gone up in my state. It is going to be a choice real soon of either eating or smoking.

[dofus]

3. I want to stay in good health

and mentally together right up to the end, whenever that is. I've been watching my in-laws, who are in their 90's deteriorate quite rapidly in the past six months or so, and it's heart breaking.

[rock]

4. Surprise me

With apologies to Bob Hope.

[yankeedem]

5. As Sam Kinison said

I don't want to get so old I'm saying "it hurts when I pee". Don't be a life pig. I guess he got his wish!

[elcondor]

11. I'm the same way

I don't want to die when I'm young (40-50's) but I don't want to get to the point where I can barely stand up and it hurts to walk.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Not forever, but I think something like 10,000 years would be bitchin'

Or even a few billion. But forever? To be truly immortal? I don't know.

It has its attraction, though.

[Deja Q]

7. FOUL! Here's a better question:

HOW would you like to die:

Doing something honorable?
Being a victim of a mugger, killer, or terrorist?
As a vegetable?
And, of course, of old age?

Personally, I'd like to die by age 40, before the body starts falling to pieces. As that gives me 8.5 years to live, maybe I'll find something to life FOR by then.

[Ivory_Tower]

9. Oh THANKS!

:)

Personally, I'd like to die by age 40, before the body starts falling to pieces.

I just turned 42 yesterday. My body isn't what it used to be (uh, actually, I guess it never was), but I'm not falling to pieces quite yet.

Funny, when I was 20 I never expected to see 30. When I was 30 I never expected to 40 (or even 35). Now I'm past 40 and I'm hoping to see the turn of the next century. Of course with my family history I'll be lucky to see 55.

[soleft]

10. I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather

and not screaming like the passengers in his car

[damnraddem]

8. Well, you asked for 'like,' not 'find advisable.'

But maybe not forever -- a few thousand years should suffice, so long as I was healthy and active.