7 hours ago, Terrance8812 said:

Reading your disjointed forum thread devoted to estimating one’s own expiration date has a certain bleak efficiency to it. Of all the possible ways a person might spend a perfectly usable evening, calmly sitting around calculating the approximate day and week they expect to stop existing ranks somewhere near the bottom of the productivity ladder. It is arguably even worse than attempting to count the wiry gray hairs protruding from one's own backside. A fair definition would be the intellectual equivalent of staring into the refrigerator for twenty minutes and then closing the door without taking anything out. One imagines a troubled man hunched over a keyboard, carefully budgeting the remainder of his biological shelf life the way an accountant in the back office of a logistics operation allocates small boxes of carefully counted paper clips to staff.

The exercise is impressive mainly for its complete lack of consequence. No answer will improve anyone’s chances of living longer, dying better, or even having a slightly more interesting Thursday. It simply produces a series of numbers that become obsolete the moment they are posted. If contemplating one’s own statistical disappearance is meant to pass for deep reflection, then the bar for you offering anything resembling a meaningful thought has sunk to a level normally associated with damp basements and molding storage boxes. In short, if the goal is to spend time thinking about absolutely nothing of value, this topic is performing magnificently.

And what's even funnier is that there are two GG's that have brought up the same things, and of course both are in this topic. Two purveyors of doom and gloom to an audience that doesn't want to hear it.

One who will likely pass away from a rabid monkey bite or be accosted by a pissed off expat he bothered in a Pattaya bathroom, and the other passing from an upper respiratory infection brought on by living in a too cold air conditioned apartment that he never leaves.

Today isnt finished yet so tomorrow might not come

Another 3 years is OK, I'd rather die before my sex life.

8 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Please start your own health-related Topic.

I only care about number of years ahead.

Interesting... so for you, grinding on & getting to a bigger number is more important than enjoying the time you have left while you can?

When you get older (& wiser) you'll realise that making the most out of life whilst you're able to is more important than the number of candles on your final birthday cake.

As you said, you might get hit by a bus tomorrow so get busy living life rather than worrying about when it's going to end.

10 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

10 years, only?

For a chimney sweep, you are already past your expiration date.

Born in 1954, my exp. date was at 66.7. If I make to 80, I'd be the 2nd oldest person, that I know in my family tree. One brother is already 78. Parents were 69/74.

If I can live till 7-11 starts selling beer at 11AM tomorrow I am good...

6 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

And what's even funnier is that there are two GG's that have brought up the same things, and of course both are in this topic. Two purveyors of doom and gloom to an audience that doesn't want to hear it.

In order to remain both happy and productive in this life, one must ephasize optimism.

Do you recall the song?

Something to do with emphasizing the positive.

This is true, even in the face of great adversity.

10 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

In order to remain both happy and productive in this life, one must ephasize optimism.

Do you recall the song?

Something to do with emphasizing the positive.

This is true, even in the face of great adversity.

Yes, emphasizing optimism means not reminding people of their fates. Also, no one knows when their time has come, as it can be a week or 20 years. Best to look at what time you have left as a positive, so you can enjoy the things you like and only take good care of yourself so you beat the odds as much as possible.

It's a good question and it's an interesting question because none of us have any idea when the Grim Reaper is going to come calling. I've gotten to the point where I do not take my remaining years for granted on any level, and I'm counting the remainder in my of my life in months, not years. As it helps to give me some perspective.

Someone asks how long do you think you got left, I might say hopefully 150 or 200 months, or something like that.

I just turned 80 and expect to live about another 10 years, or until about 2036.

30s is too soon. Dying in your 30's is tragic. As is the 40s

Sympathy dissapates from there. 50s is such a shame

60s is too soon

70s a good run

80s a life well lived

90s - a fricking hell of a ride

Some of my favorites quotes about getting older.

Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes. But, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity, played by a mediocre rock band howling for fame.

Do not go gently into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

Ya' know what though, I don't mind. I mean if my muscles ache, it's because I've used 'em. It's hard for me to walk up them steps now, its 'cuz I walked up 'em every night to lay next to a man who loved me. I got a few wrinkles here and there, but I've layed under thousands of skies with sunny days. I look and feel this way, well cuz I drank and I smoked. I lived and I loved, danced, sang, sweat and screwed my way thorough a pretty damn good life if you ask me. Getting old ain't bad Ben. Getting old, that's earned.

What are I am the most afraid of:

That because the last thing in the world I want to do is tweet or update my Facebook status the soul of youth will vomit me into the cesspool of the old and the worthless.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting,The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting.

That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer;But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry;For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry.

Robert Herrick

At 84 I am hoping to reach the century I never made at cricket. Unlikely, but so far so good.

I've made it to 80 without a single serious Health issue, i excercise every day, eat a good diet, have had two Medical Examinations every year for the last 20 years, don't drink and don't smoke. I would like to surpass my Grandmothers life of 97 but hope to make at least 90. However; we are all in the hands of God and right now i am just very happy to wake every morning.

With reference to us 'living in the Jungle', i believe that is much better than living in the lousy weather of Northern Europe where cold and damp ground works its way up through our legs to our entire body. I came here to live my last years in a warm environment.

I am surprised to have reached 80 years old but I don't expect to reach 85.

12 minutes ago, Look Chang said:

I am surprised to have reached 80 years old but I don't expect to reach 85.

Thankyou for being a realist

If your in good health hopefully you will make it

Kudos to you Sir ,may you live a longer life

30 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

At 84 I am hoping to reach the century I never made at cricket. Unlikely, but so far so good.

Probably you won't , but hey you done well

1 hour ago, WDSmart said:

I just turned 80 and expect to live about another 10 years, or until about 2036.

You really think you will?

On 3/6/2026 at 5:53 AM, fredwiggy said:

And what's even funnier is that there are two GG's that have brought up the same things, and of course both are in this topic. Two purveyors of doom and gloom to an audience that doesn't want to hear it.

One who will likely pass away from a rabid monkey bite or be accosted by a pissed off expat he bothered in a Pattaya bathroom, and the other passing from an upper respiratory infection brought on by living in a too cold air conditioned apartment that he never leaves.

Oh Fred , unfortunately guys like you drinking & smoking ,receiving anal sex without condom etc live the longest ,whilst Gym fantastic Nev dies early

The way life is ..

3 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Oh Fred , unfortunately guys like you drinking & smoking ,receiving anal sex without condom etc live the longest ,whilst Gym fantastic Nev dies early

The way life is ..

Looks like the assumption disease is spreading to you now. I'm a social drinker, preferring wine and tequila in small quantities. I don't smoke besides the occasional toke.

I stick with women, and no anal, preferring not to hurt women in any way. You seem to gravitate towards ladyboys, but I prefer those with a vagina.

Those who exercise usually live longer, especially if they use the Blue Zone diet approach. Again Mr. Doom and Gloom, you don't know how long anyone's going to last, especially you , who spends more time at doctor's offices than anyone I've encountered.

1 minute ago, fredwiggy said:

Again Mr. Doom and Gloom, you don't know how long anyone's going to last, especially you , who spends more time at doctor's offices than anyone I've encountered.

George is both a hypochondriac and a cyberchondriac constantly worrying about his health. Odds are he does not have long to live and it may not be his perceived physical ailments that get him in the end.

At age 78, I'm more interested in how I'm going to die than when. I won't be getting a kidney transplant and I have my doubts about three times weekly dialysis - too expensive so maybe I'll just let it go.

I would like to see: successful moon landings, and something being done about what is happening to the UK at present.

How long is a piece of string?

1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:

At 84 I am hoping to reach the century I never made at cricket. Unlikely, but so far so good.

Whatever you do ,please do not go out at 99

31 minutes ago, cooked said:

At age 78, I'm more interested in how I'm going to die than when. I won't be getting a kidney transplant and I have my doubts about three times weekly dialysis - too expensive so maybe I'll just let it go.

I would like to see: successful moon landings, and something being done about what is happening to the UK at present.

78

Do you need to go on dialysis?

I remember when 78 was old once

6 minutes ago, theshu25 said:

Whatever you do ,please do not go out at 99

You will miss the letter from the Queen

7 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

You will miss the letter from the Queen

I know the Royal Mail is not quite what it was, but I think they'd have managed to deliver all the letters the Queen wrote by now

67 now, approx 5475 days to go! Live life like it's your last day.........because it might be!

Dad lived to 95, Mom to 101. I am 74 and hope for another 15 or so years.

3 hours ago, newnative said:

Dad lived to 95, Mom to 101. I am 74 and hope for another 15 or so years.

Sounds good.

And, just a word of friendly advice:

a. Don't fool around with firearms.

b. And, stay out of Spanish Harlem, by all means.

e. You can still listen to Salsa Music, if you have a mind to...maybe...