34 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yes, if you have no self respect, you're obese, in poor health and eating packaged food every meal.

Strange these ones live the longest whilst the gym guy has a heart attack

I see it many times

I'll be 77 come June, and my b/f will be 37 a few days later, which about summarizes everything that's important for me in my life now.

• I see a doctor for something minor about once every 3 or 4 years on average. I see a doctor's office every year for visa renewal;

• I climb the stairs here to our second storey 20 times a day, often 2 stairs at a time;

• I do stretching exercises & including 30 squats every day;

• I don't smoke (never have) or drink more than a couple of wine-equivalents a fortnight

• I love it when we're in BKK, as we will be over Songkran, climbing those steep stairs at Asoke to the Skytrain and to enter Terminal 21. I soar up those stairs at high speed and love every second of it.

I think I have a reasonable chance of lasting another 20 years, but of course any of us can get run over by a bus or drop dead tomorrow. One thing I'm clear on is that - whenever it happens, accident or cancer or whatever - I don't want heroic efforts made to keep me alive. No point.

1 hour ago, mfd101 said:

I love it when we're in BKK, as we will be over Songkran, climbing those steep stairs at Asoke to the Skytrain and to enter Terminal 21. I soar up those stairs at high speed and love every second of it.

Careful in the Songkran heat. It's not to be taken lightly. I leave Thailand in April and May and for good reason. Heat exhaustion is what heart attacks are made of in older people. Better not to push things too hard.

5 hours ago, connda said:

I'm more worry about living too much longer

Not so much to worry about it but definitely think about it. Just to think back what you could do (and probably did) 20 years ago, then 10 years ago (still going strong), than 5 years ago (the <deleted> hit the fan) and you cannot do what you normally did in all of those years.

Still active looking after the little property but now everything is hard to do that was common before. I assume it only gets worse from here.

Luckily I have a wonderful woman as a wife, so need to keep going to support her. If it was only me there would be no motivation.

15 minutes ago, GreasyFingers said:

Not so much to worry about it but definitely think about it. Just to think back what you could do (and probably did) 20 years ago, then 10 years ago (still going strong), than 5 years ago (the <deleted> hit the fan) and you cannot do what you normally did in all of those years.

Still active looking after the little property but now everything is hard to do that was common before. I assume it only gets worse from here.

Luckily I have a wonderful woman as a wife, so need to keep going to support her. If it was only me there would be no motivation.

Same with me, could do anything until 62+, then straight down the toilet.

By 70 I can no longer do much at all.

I'm 63 and the oldest guy at my gym is 89. This guy is amazing and works out harder and with more intensity than most of the 20 year olds. I never thought that i would live beyond 40 because of the miserable and hopeless childhood I had. I guess if I can make it to 80 then it would be grand. At least once I am going have a day "like there is no tomorrow". This might mean a day or two in Singapore at Raffles Hotel and finally have that Singapore Sling from the original location. For those who know this expereince will be costly.

I do worry that I may work until I die, like my Father did.

68 and still working in our business, but I enjoy (most) of the work, and learning new skills such as Python (computer language, not snake wrestling) and trying (but failing) to improve my Thai may help to keep the brain healthy.

I still run, but only 5km, and surfskate for flexibility, and with my young-ish wife we still enjoy some horizontal exercise, but we have very limited time for travel or leisure outside of work.

- I think I will see this as an error in hindsight, if my health fails?

21 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

Singapore Sling from the original location. For those who know this expereince will be costly

It was very costly 15 years ago, so goodness knows what it will be now. Good luck.

3 hours ago, BilllyGOAT said:

Careful in the Songkran heat. It's not to be taken lightly. I leave Thailand in April and May and for good reason. Heat exhaustion is what heart attacks are made of in older people. Better not to push things too hard.

The main threat to my life and limb is my b/f's driving!

7 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

I'm 63 and the oldest guy at my gym is 89. This guy is amazing and works out harder and with more intensity than most of the 20 year olds. I never thought that i would live beyond 40 because of the miserable and hopeless childhood I had. I guess if I can make it to 80 then it would be grand. At least once I am going have a day "like there is no tomorrow". This might mean a day or two in Singapore at Raffles Hotel and finally have that Singapore Sling from the original location. For those who know this expereince will be costly.

Beautiful post , and may your happiness and positive energy be long my friend

People often look at the average lifespan now 82? and think oh i have years to go but forget that prior to dying many people have years of ill health so your real useful life might only be mid 70s. My father lived until 89 but the last 10 years he had dementia and was confined to a nursing home.

I’m 80+ …just after getting out of bed I think …FFS take me…but as the days goes on aches and pains disappear…can’t walk the golf course anymore though …well not in this heat ….

On 4/2/2026 at 10:49 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Beautiful post !!!!!

And this folks is why I keep coming back to this forum time and time again.!!!

Yes Georgieboy this topic is right uo your alley. Get out your notebooks and pencils and slide rule and you abacus you can get some amazing stats that will keep you out of soi 6 for years .You start by getting all the ages of the members here and record when they die , their age , what they died from cause etc.etc , Then every 5 years reveal your results and work out the average age that we will die Then everyone that's still here will know what an idiot you are.

I know this sounds like a rather dark and pessimistic thought, but I'm kind of glad that I'm fairly old at this point and that I won't be around to see this earth decades from now. If I don't have that much time left on this earth it's really not that big a deal.

I truly believe that for the last 30 years civilization has been marching backwards towards Cro-Magnon Era II.

My heart really goes out to the young folks who are going to have to deal with a substandard quality of life, and will not have seen the world as we saw it decades ago. For that I am very thankful.

On 4/2/2026 at 6:49 AM, Gary The Git said:

Just taking the piss here a bit, but I do sometimes wonder about this.

You hear blokes in their 60s talking about what they’re going to do “in the future” like they’ve still got decades lined up ahead of them. Future? What future? You’ve maybe got 15 or 20 good years if you’re lucky, or maybe 5 if things don’t go your way. Who knows.

Makes me think you’re probably better off living like you’ve only got 5 left in the tank.

On 4/2/2026 at 6:49 AM, Gary The Git said:

Just taking the piss here a bit, but I do sometimes wonder about this.

You hear blokes in their 60s talking about what they’re going to do “in the future” like they’ve still got decades lined up ahead of them. Future? What future? You’ve maybe got 15 or 20 good years if you’re lucky, or maybe 5 if things don’t go your way. Who knows.

Makes me think you’re probably better off living like you’ve only got 5 left in the tank.

On 4/2/2026 at 6:49 AM, Gary The Git said:

Just taking the piss here a bit, but I do sometimes wonder about this.

You hear blokes in their 60s talking about what they’re going to do “in the future” like they’ve still got decades lined up ahead of them. Future? What future? You’ve maybe got 15 or 20 good years if you’re lucky, or maybe 5 if things don’t go your way. Who knows.

Makes me think you’re probably better off living like you’ve only got 5 left in the tank.

85 years old. Still enjoying life. At my age best to just take things day by day, and keep both brain and body in best shape possible.

On 4/2/2026 at 1:49 AM, Gary The Git said:

Just taking the piss here a bit, but I do sometimes wonder about this.

You hear blokes in their 60s talking about what they’re going to do “in the future” like they’ve still got decades lined up ahead of them. Future? What future? You’ve maybe got 15 or 20 good years if you’re lucky, or maybe 5 if things don’t go your way. Who knows.

Makes me think you’re probably better off living like you’ve only got 5 left in the tank.

I'm 76 now, and I've been planning things for my future in Thailand since I moved here permanently when I was 56 years old. I'm still planning ahead, because I might have another amazing great lot of 20+ years in front of me in Land-of-Smiles. Being positive about the future might even help longevity...

On 4/1/2026 at 8:49 PM, georgegeorgia said:

Beautiful post !!!!!

And this folks is why I keep coming back to this forum time and time again.!!!

Like herpes.

If you get to age 70 and are chronic disease free, there is a strong likelihood one will get another 10-20 years. So yes, be prepared for that. My classmates are starting to die off now. Injuries, cancer, and misadventure. My oldest known friend died 2 years ago from a nasty cancer. He had a bohemian urban socialist lifestyle and had lived all over the world as a journalist. He was forever ridiculing my sober restrained lifestyle, telling me I should join him in some war ravaged place for an adventure. He was at one time a good Latino Catholic alter boy until he turned into an anti zionist leftist, supporting all the trendy leftist causes, without a pot to pi$$ in. His wealthy German wife left him after she tired of his politics and revolutionary friends. He spent his dying months at a Jewish charity hospice New York, since no one else would take him. He didn't go out on his terms because he did not have the financial means to do so.

20 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Strange these ones live the longest whilst the gym guy has a heart attack

I see it many times

As I recently read the musing of a person who noted that Keith Richards and Willie Nelson have long outlived Richards Simmons questioning the merits of healthy lifestyles.

Gary the Git: if you were living in Wales, we would, judging from your photo (assuming it is, against all odds, a pic of the real you) call you Gary Central Eating....

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I know this sounds like a rather dark and pessimistic thought, but I'm kind of glad that I'm fairly old at this point and that I won't be around to see this earth decades from now. If I don't have that much time left on this earth it's really not that big a deal.

I truly believe that for the last 30 years civilization has been marching backwards towards Cro-Magnon Era II.

My heart really goes out to the young folks who are going to have to deal with a substandard quality of life, and will not have seen the world as we saw it decades ago. For that I am very thankful.

I know I have had the best life I could have had on this planet, and I am not even sixty yet. Honestly, if someone put ten more years on the table, as good as my last ten, I would be content to leave this planet after that. At the same time, I guess I will probably feel the same way in ten years. And hopefully in five as well.

When I look at my father at eighty-six, it gives me hope. Still, I also feel a deep unease. It feels like the life we have, and the planet we live on, will soon be destroyed by stupid leaders who happen to be in control.

Yes, I say our leaders. Because in truth there are no separate countries the way we like to imagine.

We are all in this together.

1 hour ago, 0ffshore360 said:

As I recently read the musing of a person who noted that Keith Richards and Willie Nelson have long outlived Richards Simmons questioning the merits of healthy lifestyles.

Artists live longer, because they work all their lives using their creativity and brain.

And those people do have resources and a will to live, not sitting on AN day in and day out complaining or using them as an excuse to abuse their bodies.

Statistics do not lie, people who lives healthy lives longer but cant outlive good genetics

18 hours ago, GreasyFingers said:

It was very costly 15 years ago, so goodness knows what it will be now. Good luck.

About $55 Singapore dollars.

6 hours ago, JAS21 said:

I’m 80+ …just after getting out of bed I think …FFS take me…but as the days goes on aches and pains disappear…can’t walk the golf course anymore though …well not in this heat ….

Be sensible, take a golf cart.

I have broken my age 5 times this year, admittedly off the reds. My record was by 8 shots, par 66. Each year should get easier.

On 4/2/2026 at 7:44 AM, BilllyGOAT said:

Couldn't give a toss how much time I've got left. I might even give it all away if I could. But I just feel so fortunate to be welcomed here amongst the AN hospice crowd. If only Susan were here to make things even better. Heard she's been hitting a bit of a Rockroad lately. Poor gal.

Susan had several reincarnations on this forum, consistently fascist. She might be back for the 28 presidential election beating the drum for either a orange surrogate or his orangeness himself.

By the way, another anal/fascist nercophiliac, the beach lover, has kept a low profile as well.

14 minutes ago, thecyclist said:

Susan had several reincarnations on this forum, consistently fascist. She might be back for the 28 presidential election beating the drum for either a orange surrogate or his orangeness himself.

By the way, another anal/fascist nercophiliac, the beach lover, has kept a low profile as well.

So he is a she? She Male ?

2 hours ago, Hummin said:

Artists live longer, because they work all their lives using their creativity and brain.

And those people do have resources and a will to live, not sitting on AN day in and day out complaining or using them as an excuse to abuse their bodies.

Statistics do not lie, people who lives healthy lives longer but cant outlive good genetics

I always thought Richard Simmons was considered quite Artistic . But not my taste of art.

4 minutes ago, 0ffshore360 said:

I always thought Richard Simmons was considered quite Artistic . But not my taste of art.

I had to search him up, he was not know to me. He had to withdraw from his program as a public person because of a knee injury leading to inactivity, which might have lead to depression (speculating) and his death heaving a underlaying hearth disease. arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease

Inactivity kills more than any drugs, alcohol or even worse in combination

Anyways this can bee seen as a mechanical failure, where balance plays a great role in life,

• Accidental Fall: Richard Simmons died on July 13, 2024, at age 76, one day after his birthday. His death was officially ruled accidental due to complications from recent falls, specifically "blunt traumatic injuries".

On 4/2/2026 at 7:02 AM, BritManToo said:

Age 70 here, estimate 5 years tops, but probably only 1-2 years left.

And I'm OK with that.

@TedG , no worries about money, my pensions last as long as I do.

Hey BritManToo, you regularly contribute a lot of valuable analysis, technical and every day sensible comment and problem solving ideas here, I rather doubt 75 is your 'limit'.

Just now, scorecard said:

Hey BritManToo, you regularly contribute a lot of valuable analysis, technical and every day sensible comment and problem solving ideas here, I rather doubt 75 is your 'limit'.

Good luck.

I'm 82 coming soon, still very active and agile, brain seems to be doing well, I do have short term memory lapses, however what got 'lost' in the short term memory tank seems to return within a short time.

On 4/2/2026 at 7:44 AM, BilllyGOAT said:

Couldn't give a toss how much time I've got left. I might even give it all away if I could. But I just feel so fortunate to be welcomed here amongst the AN hospice crowd. If only Susan were here to make things even better. Heard she's been hitting a bit of a Rockroad lately. Poor gal.

Yeah many of were sad to lose Susanlea as a source of entertainment.

Some say that he/she reincarnated as harrisfan but I’m not convinced .

I think that he/she continues to make some of us laugh with his/her far right drivel under the moniker Jonny Fartpants.