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

Originally Posted by david44

What is your goal

Waking up tomorrow.

I have always thought I'd be lucky to get 15+ years reasonably healthy, ie I can travel and enjoy seeing the family before I get decrepit. I have also said to all the family that if I get a diagnosis or it feels to me like I'm going downhill fast then it'll be a planned tour of the family to say goodbyes, get my affairs in order and then its off with Mrs Toot to spend some time together and say our goodbye. The for me is going to be pharma induced way before I end up some yellow shrunken skull with a morphine driver.

Originally Posted by Norton

Waking up tomorrow.

With a lady clutching a slab of whale blubber and a smile

Conk out in my sleep. Peacefully.

Essentially, I am pleased to have surpassed my warranty period and consider anything more to be a bonus but like Oliver, I do want more.

^ how do you plan the finish?

^ I think if you've done what you can for the kids you deserve a bit of Mendip time

Originally Posted by malmomike77

^ how do you plan the finish?

maybe in True pattaya style a swan dive of the 40th floor of his wongamat conda . Join the pattaya high flyers club?

Originally Posted by david44

What is your goal

Interesting post David as this discussion comes up on and off with my colleagues and friends randomly

My goal.... don't have one. I have lived a wonderful life up to now and accomplished a lot both family and career wise so when I go, I go. Just burn me with a great bottle of Rye Whiskey.

That said, I really have no desire to live to an old or older age. I don't want to deal with doctors, meds, suffering, inability to eat what I want and drink what I want and moreover essentially sit around waiting to die as so many do. I have made this very clear to my wife and she understands.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

With a lady clutching a slab of whale blubber and a smile

Canadian clubbing , seal with approval.

I used to think sex would be the way to go , with the missus on top, we even discussed it once, she said it might be embarrassing, if trapped underneath, having to call for help etc, but not ethical objections.

I really shocked her when asking a firm devout Buddhist what she would like to come back as, She liked suggestion that she come back as me and I come back as her a very interesting notion between bouts.

I used to think coming back as unlikley as Trump or Oasis but now I'm maybe.....definitely, of course once a foot soldier always a foot soldier but once a Knight is enough.

I think when even 2.5 Viagara no longer boner it's time to quit, reminds where's helge in a Motel on teh A10 with Slowcull?

Originally Posted by david44

I think when even 2.5 Viagara no longer boner it's time to quit,

I have been suffering from a condition for a few years that, well just gave me no interest in marital sports. I got good treatment, which is slowly bringing the underlying condition under control. Ironically, one of the main side effects is a loss of interest in marital sports.

Missus was cool with it. She was getting older and was kind of relieved that her aging joints were not required to bend herself into a pretzel shape every other night. She is gone now, but I miss our cuddles and quiet chats at night.

Intimacy is more than just boning, and sometimes it is relaxing when it is off the table.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Intimacy is more than just boning, and sometimes it is relaxing when it is off the table.

Agreed, fortunately the urgency of youth mellows with maturity.

At least you have fond memories, good post Oggy,

Originally Posted by david44

What is your goal
as long as possible?
100 even?
Ozempic fuelled eternity?
Longer than TD?

I have a job I love, and I am very, very good at it. Compulsory retirement in my company is 65, but they did some shenanigans to keep me on to 70, with a significantly increased salary. Performance linked, i could work up to 80.

But my job requires a razor sharp intellect. Any even marignal fuzzing of my brain would stand out like a lighthouse beacon. Tough job. So, I hope to get to 80 intact, but if not will pray for a stroke or (another) heart attack. Nothing fills me with more dread than a slow decline into mental incapacity. To be deep in dementia in a foreign country has its own special horrors.

I dunno, Tax seems to manage ok.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Interesting post David as this discussion comes up on and off with my colleagues and friends randomly

My goal.... don't have one. I have lived a wonderful life up to now and accomplished a lot both family and career wise so when I go, I go. Just burn me with a great bottle of Rye Whiskey.

That said, I really have no desire to live to an old or older age. I don't want to deal with doctors, meds, suffering, inability to eat what I want and drink what I want and moreover essentially sit around waiting to die as so many do. I have made this very clear to my wife and she understands.

That’s the sort of immature twaddle one expects from a callow youth.

Quite childish, really.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

That’s the sort of immature twaddle one expects from a callow youth.

Quite childish, really.

Kinda ironic you always seem miserable, yet Stumpy seems happy as for callow youth since Bspin gone Armstrong probably only man (we'll leave rust a fairy Ann-Lulu out of the workforce" on here who isn't retired, semi-retired ready to retire soon.

Any way back to my OP , how much longer do you wish to continue, I wish you well , perhaps to ward of ennui, start to learn Russian, play the crumpet, become a volunteer toursit policewoman, Kateboarding, left handed onanism, Bouncy Caslte, Pastie crimpmig or for the ultimate oral pleasure visit THE dentist?

I am so retarded I don't even feel old, bored or virtually useless despite reassurances from her indoors.

according to the singularity is nearer - if you can last another 10 years you should be able to live to 120

How much longer I’ve got doesn’t come to mind often but maybe 20 more years or so would be about right. As long as I can ambulate and eat my soup by myself I’ll be good. Being very sick and suffering or having dementia worries me more than the growing old itself. Outliving everyone I love is scary.

Originally Posted by misskit

How much longer I’ve got doesn’t come to mind often but maybe 20 more years or so would be about right. As long as I can ambulate and eat my soup by myself I’ll be good. Being very sick and suffering or having dementia worries me more than the growing old itself. Outliving everyone I love is scary.

Couldn't put it better myself. I belivee there are few homes for farang seniors around C Mai.

Having visited a very expensive care home in London was an eye opener, a room full of sad strangers in a horsehoe around a tv that seemed always on but no one watching, they had private rooms nurses and institutional food, was a like a prison where although they were free to leave most could barely walk.

Most of teh nurses/carers were philipinas as locals won't work anti social hours for long periods , one from Mauritius would speak secretly in French to me while we made a tray of tea for the residents and my firend tried to convince mother with dementia they staff were not stealing her giant underwear!!

I'd chat to some of teh old blokes some had a sparkle inside sad eyes and few visitors they talked of the Blitz and adventures in their youth. I'd sooner not face that.

There is progress in diagnoses of misfolding diseases and promising pharma trials but no quick fix yet.My few times as an in patient here have left a good impression and fear of being unable to communicate eased by ,my basic level Thai was adequate with nurses and all Drs knowledge of English,I guess one of teh few comforts of not being a millionaire they will never keep me alive hooked up to expensive drugs and machines as unlike Europe they need to make a profit!

Good luck everyone and surprised to receive many thoughful responses.In meantime exercise and diet to have good quality 'golden years" and keep aware of hazards be it the Roadds , floods, local awareness of health and safety !

^ I’ve been out to look at a couple of the care homes here in Chiang Mai. They are more resort-like than the cold and sterile nursing homes in the US. Not bad at all. Not expensive like the US either.

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.

Originally Posted by david44

Kinda ironic you always seem miserable, yet Stumpy seems happy

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.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

I have been suffering from a condition for a few years that, well just gave me no interest in marital sports. I got good treatment, which is slowly bringing the underlying condition under control. Ironically, one of the main side effects is a loss of interest in marital sports.

Missus was cool with it. She was getting older and was kind of relieved that her aging joints were not required to bend herself into a pretzel shape every other night. She is gone now, but I miss our cuddles and quiet chats at night.

Intimacy is more than just boning, and sometimes it is relaxing when it is off the table.

I agree 100% with this, especially the last part. Such loss must be difficult to bear, when you just learned to share. Affection and physical intimacy does not have to end with orgasm!