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.
I'm thinking this guy had it about right.
My father used to allude to the 3 score and 10...he made it to 84, though.