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Question: How long would you like to live!?
Many people say they'd like to live for 100 years or *ack* more!. I really wouldn't!. I'm currently 36 and would really like to call it quits at 60 tops (seriously) If you could choose the age of "checking out" what would you choose!? I would at 60!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I think most people would want to live until the negatives outweigh the positives!. This is going to come at a different age for each person!. My wife is 38 and she thinks she will be done at 75!. However, when the time comes, I doubt she will actually want to go through with it!.
As we age, we do lose the ability to do things, but there are other things that replace them!. At 75, my wife won't be able to road bike competitively, but by then we should have grandchildren and other family members, and that will become her focus, I suspect!.
If I had to name an age, I would estimate about 85 as when I would like to go!. This is the age at which my grandparents started to lose the ability to care for themselves independently, and things just went downhill from there!. If there are medical advances that allow me to remain active and mentally sharp after that age, I'm sure I would choose to stick around longer!. I doubt that if you asked any older person if they wanted to die immediately, they would agree with you!. So it all depends on how much you enjoy life, and whether you see any future usefulness to yourself on the planet!. It depends!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Probably!.!.!. 45 years!. I'm not too keen on living longer than that, and I'm not really enthusiastic about the effects of aging!. If I manage to achieve great things, I'd settle for 27!. And then I can join the 27 club!! YAAAAY!. Provided they accept people outside musicians!.

I'm somehow attracted to the idea of dying at the age of 27 even before I knew the existence of the club!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would want to live to 60 too, I really don't want to get old just too much pain and akin bones, 60 years sound wonderful but I would still wont mind if I go up that mark or die before that mark, life and death is in the hand of GodWww@QuestionHome@Com

the day someone has to wide my *** b/c i am no longer able to do it!. that is the day if fall of the bed onto a fork!. whither that be 40 or 80!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'd like to live to be about 85!. I at least want to see my kids grow up and hopefully, have some grandkids and see them grow up too! And enjoy some retirement time!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would really like to live up to 50!. If I die today, I wouldn't mind!. Life sucks anyway!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A little bit longer than a tree, not so long as a tortoise!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i wanna die by 40, but live past 20!. why!? i dont know, ever since i was little i just decided that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

For as long as I have all my faculties and can be independent!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i would say between 60-70!.!.!.!. i would get really bored with life after that!.!.!. but whenever my time is, im cool with that!. =]Www@QuestionHome@Com