Thread: How much longer would you like to live? The Entropy enigma

Originally Posted by david44

keep me alive hooked up to expensive drugs and machines

I have always felt modern medicine is a blessing and a curse. I think it's advancements have been very beneficial to the younger folks as it saved so many so they got to enjoy life. On the older side it's the curse. I watched my degrade slowly due to cancer while they pumped her full of chemicals. Her quality of life was shit and yet there is money to be made. I'll pass. At some point you come to terms you have lived a life and succumbing to the Med way to sustain or prolong your life isn't very much fun. Quality of life degrades, your daily goal is to take pills.

Enjoy life to the fullest while you are capable.

Originally Posted by misskit

Living there wouldn’t be bad at all. Someone prepares your meals and does your cleaning. No yardwork. No house repairs. Someone to drive you around a couple of times a week. Exercise classses….hmm.

Those type of places can be relaxing and fun.

They say that genes load the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

My paternal grandfather lived to 95 and his grandfather to 100, both with all their marbles. My PSA (prostate specific antigen) is extremely low, as is my cholesterol as a result of being vegetarian since age 21. Which will also lower

considerably my chances of getting bowel cancer. Sex drive is still strong and my girlfriend has a lot of enthusiasm.

Excluding accidents, I should be good for another twenty, maybe thirty years, and I would like that....if only to see how various things in this world turn out.

Both my parents passed away at 87. Eighty seven is about the time ancestors kicked the bucket, with the exception of the smokers who went earlier. Great grandpappy lived to 99.

Looking back I'm surprised I got this far, 72. So really every day's a bonus. My missus says she'll be happy for me to see 90. Why do men usually die before their wives? Cuz they want to.

I have a question for the audience, so how many of you are taking meds every day? Is your diet modified due to it? Did you have to give up all you liked? Is it worth it?

Honest curious questions.

I have older colleague friends that take a plethora of meds and they complain all the time, can't do certain things because they could bleed out or they slightly bump something and bruise. Can't eat this, can't eat that. So they stay home and thus in my opinion, the trap begins. So yes you live to an old age but.......

Again and only my personal belief, quality of life is far more important then living to 90 if all the individual is doing is sitting and staring and waiting.

^ Yes. I take medication for blood pressure and cholesterol. That could probably change if I kept to a strict diet but I don’t. I loves me a steak.

I want to keep going for as long as I am mentally able. Unfortunately the body is suffering from wear & tear and recovery time is getting longer.

Having said that, I managed 5 hours hedge cutting last Saturday and 2 hours each evening after 9-10 hours work each day. I just felt a little worse for wear every morning and felt very old when working with people in their late 20's. Then again, I was in at 6 and they arrive around 8:30 and we leave about the same time.

Apart from tablets for the diabetes, I take some more for blood pressure. I have reduced sugar intake but still like a couple of drinks in the evening. The main difference is that I now have to work for them, an hour's walk or 2 hours gardening. I gave up smoking 12 years ago, should have quit 30 years ago, but no point worrying about that now.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Old SA is miserable as one can be and it shows and has for numerous years. Me, on the other hand, am quite happy and always have been. But of course by saying that I guess I am what that old geriatric SA would call "Smug" and "immature". Laughable in many ways but one has to consider the source with him.

Do carry on SA. Your regurgitated diatribe is the same in every thread. This "Simpleton" as you call me is, and continues to, enjoy life every day.

Only someone as utterly fatuous as you could possibly consider trundling about in a fucking ATV around a scruffy tropical scrubland in a third world rural dystopia populated by halfwits to be a life affirming activity and core to oneÂ’s existence.

You're so utterly Seppo like, a veritable cartoon creature stuffed full of adolescence that stultifies into nothing more than the simpletonÂ’s embrace of crass materialism full of cliche but limited by a dull unimaginative intellect so redolent of the smug and slightly stupid.

And youÂ’ve probably got a fat arse and the imbecileÂ’s grin.

Originally Posted by misskit

^ Yes. I take medication for blood pressure and cholesterol. That could probably change if I kept to a strict diet but I don’t. I loves me a steak.

I understand MK. I know a few friends that take BP meds and a fee that take blood thinners and for cholesterol. They hate it and the list the doc gave them of foods to eat to keep it lower is food they hate. Many also have to take a bunch of vitamins to compensate for the meds they take.

I dunno. Seems like a viscous cycle. I am now watching my Pops go down this path and we talk every day and he is not "Living the Dream".

I guess as we age and want to live for a long time there are trade offs. Not sure I will sign up.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Only someone as utterly fatuous as you could possibly consider trundling about in a fucking ATV around a scruffy tropical scrubland in a third world rural dystopia populated by halfwits to be a life affirming activity and core to oneÂ’s existence

Only a condo ridden old coffin dodger would sweat out what I do. I get it though SA. You have been a miserable old fuck ever since you packed up and trapped yourself in whoreville. Probably looked good on paper but the fact you live a one dimensional life staring out a plate glass window over a pool that AirBNB guests piss in must be a tough reality.

Was it how you saw your life playing out as a pensioner?

Another 5 to 10 and I'd be happy.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Again and only my personal belief, quality of life is far more important then living to 90 if all the individual is doing is sitting and staring and waiting.

That’s pretty rich coming from someone who has isolated himself from civilisation in a pastiche of a dreary suburban Arizona cookie cutter house in a fucking third world jungle clearing surrounded by scarcely domesticated half wits.

^ Perhaps unsurprisingly my post garnered a gray "blob" from LatinWanker, with the comment that he now understood why I was such a "turd". Not sure on the logic on that.

All I can say to LatinWanker is that I lost my missus of 24 years to a drunk driver. You lost your missus ( of how long, 2 years? 3 years?) because you were an unbearable wanker. Big difference.

Keep'em coming SA. You make me laugh. Your ducks sailed a long time ago so what you have...is well.... what you have. You do know you live here and are fully stuck in the country you absolutely hate? Me...I can I pack up move with my wife tomorrow. But why would I. The people you claim as halfwits live a better life than you, and that's saying a lot. I mean. A superior westerner ( by his own claims) living in a cesspit in a condo? HAHAHAHA. Who really is the smarter one...eh? The issue SA, you have never been happy and it shows. But do continue on.

Originally Posted by Salsa dancer

Sex drive is still strong and my girlfriend has a lot of enthusiasm.

JFC, no one, literally no one asked or wants to know.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

^ Perhaps unsurprisingly my post garnered a gray "blob" from LatinWanker, with the comment that he now understood why I was such a "turd". Not sure on the logic on that.

All I can say to LatinWanker is that I lost my missus of 24 years to a drunk driver. You lost your missus ( of how long, 2 years? 3 years?) because you were an unbearable wanker. Big difference.

Of course he did!

300 years old +

Don't tell me when I'm going to die. Tell me where, then I shan't go there. Sorted.

Originally Posted by Edmond

300 years old +

Be careful what you wish for. Aurora asked the gods to give her lover Tithonus immortality. But she forgot to ask for eternal youth.

I don't have a goal age to live to. I'll get what I get whether I like it or not. I've been fortunate to have been fit and healthy all of my life and I hope it continues that way, but you never know what's around the corner and I could have a heart attack or a fatal accident tomorrow. I don't take any medication for long-term health issues. The only illness I dread getting is cancer but recent prostate and bowel cancer checks have not shown any issues. Alzheimer's might be an issue in years to come but I suppose that would be worse for my family rather than me. In the meantime, I'll keep on keeping on until the grim reaper comes for me.

I had a heart attack in June, whilst in Malaysia. A couple of stents and a balloon now mean 50% more blood flow through my heart and I'm feeling more alive than at any time in the last 5-7 years. But the future now has a horizon. That's what being old means. You realise that things will, in all probability, become progressively worse.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

I know a few friends ... that take blood thinners.

Seems like a viscous cycle.

I just love these little gaffes that pop up in TD.

Originally Posted by Shutree

Be careful what you wish for. Aurora asked the gods to give her lover Tithonus immortality. But she forgot to ask for eternal youth.

Another Mao nick, wasn't she?

Originally Posted by Lostandfound

I had a heart attack in June, whilst in Malaysia. A couple of stents and a balloon now mean 50% more blood flow through my heart and I'm feeling more alive than at any time in the last 5-7 years. But the future now has a horizon. That's what being old means. You realise that things will, in all probability, become progressively worse.

So glad to hear you pulled through and doing well. Many of us worried when you disappeared from the forum!

You’ve lived an extraordinary life so far. Keep on going.

Originally Posted by Shutree

Aurora

Originally Posted by cyrille

Another Mao nick, wasn't she?

Think that was Auroria.

Used to fight with his other nick Minty?


Bit odd if you ask me.