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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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We had an interesting discussion about it yesterday and whilst I think it is a good duration around 100 years, my mother thought it was too short as she likes to learn alot and to be a student, whats your view? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We had an interesting discussion about it yesterday and whilst I think it is a good duration around 100 years, my mother thought it was too short as she likes to learn alot and to be a student, whats your view?"
Your mother is 100? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"We had an interesting discussion about it yesterday and whilst I think it is a good duration around 100 years, my mother thought it was too short as she likes to learn alot and to be a student, whats your view?
Your mother is 100?"
No. I meant in general we live to about 100 years. |
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"We had an interesting discussion about it yesterday and whilst I think it is a good duration around 100 years, my mother thought it was too short as she likes to learn alot and to be a student, whats your view?
Your mother is 100?No. I meant in general we live to about 100 years."
You're a bit over optimistic there.
In the UK it's 79 for men and 82 for women.
If you're lucky.. |
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If you die young yes, but I read an interview with someone who was well over 100 and they just wanted to die seen as they'd outlived all their friends and family and were physically incapable of doing anything.
If we could live far longer and keep our young agile bodies for much longer it would be a different story.
But yes life is short so cram as much in as you can, don't get old and look back wishing you'd done things  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We had an interesting discussion about it yesterday and whilst I think it is a good duration around 100 years, my mother thought it was too short as she likes to learn alot and to be a student, whats your view?
Your mother is 100?No. I meant in general we live to about 100 years.
You're a bit over optimistic there.
In the UK it's 79 for men and 82 for women.
If you're lucky.."
The figures are statistical not really luck, 79 & 82 are not definitive end ages, people live beyond these ages.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You have no influence over your life's duration so whether you think its too short or not isn't significant really "
Really think you don’t have an influence?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We had an interesting discussion about it yesterday and whilst I think it is a good duration around 100 years, my mother thought it was too short as she likes to learn alot and to be a student, whats your view?
Your mother is 100?No. I meant in general we live to about 100 years.
You're a bit over optimistic there.
In the UK it's 79 for men and 82 for women.
If you're lucky.."
Or unlucky if you see the way a lot end up |
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"You have no influence over your life's duration so whether you think its too short or not isn't significant really
Really think you don’t have an influence??"
Yes. I can influence it to an extent by living a healthy life but there are many factors outside my control. |
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While chatting with my Dad and a friend of his , the both said they struggled with the changes happening in the last ten years or so . They are both 85 , and have all their mental and physical faculties .
The main things they struggle with are things like technology , the way we police the country , trans and pride etc.... , general things in society like kids being treated like little princes and princesses while they play up in cafes etc...... And the upshot was that they both felt they felt the way they do because they are getting too old for all this now .
So maybe they’re right . I feel like they do sometimes and I’m only 57 !
I certainly don’t think we need to live longer because with the way things change it’s hard to keep up with it all . |
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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago
a quandary, could you change my mind? |
Life is life, am OK with the years I've spent upto now, if I depart now that's fine by me and if I have a few more years then great but not sure I want to be around till 100. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You don't stop having fun when you get old.
You get old when you stop having fun  "
^ Like that one ^ Not only is life too short the world is a small place. |
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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago
Slough Windsor ish |
I do often wonder if all the advances in medicine are necessarily a good thing, especially when you look at the possibility of living with dementia.
I think I'd prefer not to go through that, or rather, put my children through me living with dementia.
At some stage I believe we shouldn't always fight natural selection. |
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"We had an interesting discussion about it yesterday and whilst I think it is a good duration around 100 years, my mother thought it was too short as she likes to learn alot and to be a student, whats your view?
Your mother is 100?No. I meant in general we live to about 100 years.
You're a bit over optimistic there.
In the UK it's 79 for men and 82 for women.
If you're lucky.."
If you die with having nothing on your to do list then no it's not too short it's just right,if you die with things still to experience then life was to short and if you're 100 and no good memories and wisdom you've wasted it |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
Hereford |
"While chatting with my Dad and a friend of his , the both said they struggled with the changes happening in the last ten years or so . They are both 85 , and have all their mental and physical faculties .
The main things they struggle with are things like technology , the way we police the country , trans and pride etc.... , general things in society like kids being treated like little princes and princesses while they play up in cafes etc...... And the upshot was that they both felt they felt the way they do because they are getting too old for all this now .
So maybe they’re right . I feel like they do sometimes and I’m only 57 !
I certainly don’t think we need to live longer because with the way things change it’s hard to keep up with it all ."
Ever was it thus.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
- Socrates (469-399BC) |
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Mrs Jetsons great grandma departed through the exit door 3 weeks gone
She was 99 years old.
Took the whole family 3 days to work out what should be left OUT of the service.
She put that much into her life it was almost impossible to recap on it all. |
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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago
Near Wells |
Life isn't too short, but when you get to 50 you realise you probably only have about 20 years of usefulness and time to do the things you want to do.
The bigger problem is when you're in your 50's, 20 years doesn't seem very long. |
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By *ddibleMan
over a year ago
Exeter Bristol Salisbury |
"We're all DOOMED!!!!
Death is inevitable, yes.
Best to make peace with it.
Oh FFS!
Am I wrong?
It's not depressing, it just is."
No you're right
Every day we all die a little
Cheer up |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
Hereford |
"We're all DOOMED!!!!
Death is inevitable, yes.
Best to make peace with it.
Oh FFS!
Am I wrong?
It's not depressing, it just is.
No you're right
Every day we all die a little
Cheer up"
I didn't say that, did I?
I've nearly died more than once, I've made my peace with my own demise, therefore I don't find threads like this, or the concept of death sad or depressing.
In fact, it's the opposite- the beauty of life is in part due to the fact that it's temporary.
Things that last forever have the time to become boring. |
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"Life isn't too short, but when you get to 50 you realise you probably only have about 20 years of usefulness and time to do the things you want to do.
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Oh Looks like I have run out of usefullness  better tell the Mrs not to make any more lists of things she wants doing, and give up my volenteering duties |
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