If you live to 100 years, the last 20 or so is going to be pretty rough.

I don't know. I'm terrified of death and hope to hold on as long as possible, but that seems like it would get lonely.

DarnoKonrad: Completely depends on the quality of life.

Right. Few people have a decent quality-of-life beyond about 75.

/I may well be gone before 60. I'm okay with that.

I want to reach the age where I can walk around Walmart with no pants on and not get arrested.

Solty Dog: I want to reach the age where I can walk around Walmart with no pants on and not get arrested.

This is brilliant. And somehow.. poetic.

If i have a full and vibrant life, still, why not?
however, given the trend of people 6'+ in my family to die lingering deaths of cancer.. yeah probably not gonna happen.

/ I will however need some quality replacement parts.. my knee is shot to hell at 32, and i can feel the arthritis starting in my spine.
//feeling decrepit.

I think 85 is fine for me. Can't imagine getting anything resembling sex after that. Though, if baseball is still around, I guess I could make it from season to season with something to look forward to.

Then again when my god daughter is having a teen relationship tantrum i make her listen to this (new window)
it's child abuse to a productive end.

As it is now, we go to school for 12-18 years, work for 40-50 years, so we can live the retired life for 20-30.

If we live to be 100, or 200, how long will we have to work to be able to retire? How many people will work their entire adult lives, only to drop dead "early"?

If I could enjoy life - both health and monetarily - I might enjoy living longer. But if I'm the only one, no peers, I'd be out too. Our society doesn't like socializing with the elderly as it is.

I wouldnt mind ending up like General Grievous.

Or maybe some kind of Darth Vader-esque machination.

6 million dollar man? Robocop? Evangelion?

There's a lot of options here.

ViciousXero: If I could stay somewhat youthful (20s-30s), I'd live for a couple thousand years, sure.

Pretty much this. A lot of my family seems to decline greatly in health after 60 or 70.

If I still have hot coeds giving me double blowjobs?

Sure.

Yeah, I don't see why anyone would want to live to 100. My grandmother is 84 right now and is one step away from being despondent. My parents have to do everything for her and she's a crotchety old biatch. I want no part of that.

That said, give me 85 good years and you can take me.

My mother's family tends to be extremely long-lived (90+). My dad's tends to be a bit less so, usually in their 70s or 80s. Barring disease or accident, I hope to make it up to 100 or so. Just so I can kick you all off my lawn.

I'd prefer my consciousness be transmitted into the Loc-Nar.



Look into me, one final time. See my evil destroy your race. Then prepare to die.

bigpete53: If I still have hot coeds giving me double blowjobs?

Sure.

Once you get over 100 years old you might have to cut back to only once or twice a day.

I'd try to become Cousin It, and totally put ZZ Top to waste when it came to beardiness.
And I'd finance awesome stuff out over fifty years, like monster trucks, tickets to the Stones, and two chicks at one time.

DarnoKonrad: Completely depends on the quality of life.

Exactly. At the rate I'm going, the thought of seeing 40 isn't exactly appealing, let alone 100. But that's not a concern of mine, seeing as most people in my family don't see 60. We have a history of dying pretty young (and cancer). But if I was in good health, I'd like to live to be pretty old. It would be neat to know that you were alive for major world events that are "ancient history" in the eyes of young people and be able to talk about them.

/hopes she at least outlives her parents, as no parent should have to bury their child
//fark chronic illness
///has beat the odds so far, so I'm doing very well in that aspect - I credit my eternal optimism (and some excellent doctors)
////sorry to rant there - I hope I don't derail the thread, and I'm not really in the mood to go into details at the moment

i just want to be old enough to shake my cane at whippersnappers.

Aaaaand we're greenlit.

MissFeasance: I hope to make it up to 100 or so. Just so I can kick you all off my lawn.

I'll be 6 feet under your lawn.

I'd be able to earn a solid pension by retiring at 110 and still have 90 years to catch up on video games.

I don't even want to live to be 90, I an only 39, and with all the pain I have now I cannot imagine being that old and hurting so much more. Old age is not something I an looking forward to.

And how would one `pay' for extra twenty-five years of sitting around in a nursing home?
Those adult diapers cost money, ya know!

TheOther: Green?

Ayup.



Who wants to live forever?

/Not after the sequel I didn't.

sarahthustra: i just want to be old enough to shake my cane at whippersnappers.

I "shook" my "cane" at a "whippersnapper" once.

Considering what's likely coming in the next couple of centuries? Not really. The environmental degradation and struggle for dwindling resources is only going to get uglier from here.

Sybarite: Considering what's likely coming in the next couple of centuries? Not really. The environmental degradation and struggle for dwindling resources is only going to get uglier from here.

You watch too many movies.

If I live to 100, in all likelihood, I'll spend the last parts of my life helpless and having completely lost my faculties.

Yeah, that's a real nice prospect to look forward to.

violentsalvation: MissFeasance: I hope to make it up to 100 or so. Just so I can kick you all off my lawn.

I'll be 6 feet under your lawn.

DAMMIT

kwame: I "shook" my "cane" at a "whippersnapper" once.

dirty old man.

Kyro: You watch too many movies.

Oooh, movies.

Can you imagine how many titles Marvel will have committed to film by 2150? DC might even have something worth watching out by then, too.

I want to live long enough to see hoverboards become reality.

However, the only way I'd possibly want to live more than 70/80 years is if I don't age past my 40s or so...

I'd still like to be bendy and attractive(ish). Not all crinkly and dusty.

mcsiegs: Can you imagine your alcohol tolerance at age 200?

It would be neat to see Dynascape sh*t his liver at age 164

Ive stopped drinking hard liquor for a while now!

I only drink Yuengling these days. Cans even.