"Hope you don't need the same assistance.
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No doubt we will at some point. We have the financial resources to pay for that care, when we need it. Did you know that you can hire a full-time live-in attendant with medical skills for about $3000/month? There's one right now, living in my in-laws home to help after a recent hospitalization. She's a very nice person and is very competent. She'll be leaving in about a week, since my FIL has improved.
If you have the financial resources, it's very easy to live the last years of your life and be cared for. We're not worried.
You are indeed fortunate to have enough money to not want children. Aren't you glad that other people did so you can pay them?
MM, I'm on your side in this STUPID thread, but you made an interesting choice of words there. My wife is a hospice worker, and although she considers it a religious calling, she is in the EXTREME minority amongst her co-workers. Unless you are very, very lucky, the person "caring" for for will only be doing so in the healthcare definition of the word. You'll be just another means to a paycheck. The chances are very small you'll find someone who cares about you as a person.
But that may not matter to you. Maybe you just want someone to wipe your butt and change your bed. But a stranger who is there for a check may be giving you "care", but have no illusions that they "care". For that, you'll need someone who has known you since they were born, who has a love for you that is so deep that they can't explain it. Someone who will be heartbroken when you go.
What you described is "healthcare", not "care".
Heck, for that you can live in a villa in Mexico with the full-time services of a couple of senoritas who will be glad to dress up as nurses if you like... ;)
Maybe you'll be dead before you're in your dotage, but who cares? You're gonna have all that money to spend on yourself and your wife, MM!
Life will be good. And you'll probably have more visitors than Freedom Surge, whose kids will no doubt expect him to euthanize himself when his prescriptions get too expensive...