Reaching 100 is easier than suspected

AP ^ | Feb. 12, 2008 | LINDSEY TANNER

[Pharmboy]

Good news!?

[Pharmboy]

There’s hope for us yet...ping.

[Paleo Conservative]

My father was told that the best way to live a long life is to have a chronic disease that requires frequent medical evaluation.

[exit82]

It’s only the last thirty years that are the hardest, to reach 100.

[BerniesFriend]

Reaching 100 is easier than suspected

100 what??..dollars?..pairs of shoes?..pounds?..miles?..

[Pharmboy]

I have an unbelievable uncle in FLA who is 93. He has every marble he was born with. I love that guy...

[blam]

"There’s hope for us yet...ping."

I have always thought thought that if I lived as old as my dad then, I'd lived a long life. My dad died at 74...I'm 64 and don't have any of the problems he had at 64...so?

[Arthur McGowan]

News you can use: People who stay active live longer!

News you can use: People who played basketball in college are much taller than average!

[Ditto]

Good news!?

As long as I don't have to spend the last 20 year wearing diapers, I'll go for it.

Otherwise, I'm checking out of this hotel.

[tubebender]

I’ll be 75 soon and my doctor told me I should cash in my IRA and start drinking $100 bottles of red wine.

We have a friend 93 and she still has her hearing, teeth and only wears glasses for reading. She still drives and she is great fun to be around and she never complains of anything.

My brother is 86 and I have no doubt he will make 100 in good health and he has a great disposition also.

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

Buy the $100 wine.
Keep the IRA.
Lose the doctor.

[glorgau]

Good news!?

It's great news for the Social Security Trust Fund.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

There is a man who builds wooden porch swings and outdoor furniture (well, he actually has a helper build them these days) ... and this man drives around and peddles them out of the back of his pickup. He drives about 150 miles a day, almost every day. Two years ago when I bought a swing from him, he told me that he was 96 years old! I saw him this morning, as a matter of fact, and he is still driving and seems to be going strong.

My late FIL would have been 100 next week. He died in 2005 at the age of 97. This tough buzzard used to broadcast DDT from a croaker sack with his bare hands off the back of a mule in his cotton fields. He also ate lard most of his life.

I feel like such a wuss.

[Pharmboy]

LOL! It will probably pay out in pesos by that time anyway...

[Pharmboy]

Don’t trade in those genes of yours...

[PennsylvaniaMom]

blam, didn't you get the memo...64 is the 'new' 44.

;)PaMom

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, hope, maybe. I've had more than my share of relatives who lived into their 90s or early years of their second century, and I'm not too sure I'm up for it. I would enjoy outliving certain people, but I'm not that shy about expressing names and methods, either. ;')

Living to 100 is easier than you might think.

Don't die until then. Gosh, do I have to think of everything?!?

[Soliton]

If you live to be 100 you ain’t doin it right. No joke. I am 50, will be 51 soon.

Reasons to die sooner:

1. Was with each parent when they died in old age in hospitals. Going young and quick is better.

2. Life insurance cheats my family after 70. I worked all their lives to provide for them when I was young and would have loved to have been scuba diving instead. Do I really want to sacrifice their inheritance after 70 just to sit and watch Walker Texas Ranger reruns?

3. My Father in Law was a manly man steel mill worker. He literally craps his pants in and old folks home now(Alzhimers). My wife spends her Saturdays holding his hand and crying. I’m glad he never saw it coming because he would have made me promise to kill him. His wife lives in poverty to pay her half of his keep. It costs more per year than he ever earned.

4. Slimebag doctors get rich pumping drugs into confused old people while their lawyers rob them and gypsies sell them squirrel deflectors for their roofs.

5. The Bible offers 3 score and 10.

6. Robert Byrd

7. Memetics. When you’re done being able to teach, you’re done. Get out of the way.

So as my children graduate from college, my goal is to live hard and fast and find a way to die with dignity causing them the least burden. Living to 100 would be selfish and foolish like leaving millions to your pet cat instead of your kids.

[maine-iac7]

I know of a man who is 88 and still drives a big rig - not that he has too, he's a multi millionaire and owns one of the largest trucking companies in the country. But he still hauls loads across the country...It's a family owned outfit, started almost a hundred years ago, so the man has been in the business all his life.

He is a Mormon, so probably doesn't smoke or drink...which probably helps.

One of my sons, who drives for the company, says he looks 70.

[maine-iac7]

It’s only the last thirty years that are the hardest, to reach 100.

Now you tell me - ah well, only 27 1/2 more 'hard' years to go