My parents are both 95, my mother has been shuffled between the hospital and rehab/nursing home for the last 3 months but my dad is vaguely aware of it for only a few seconds a day while he is in an assisted living memory care. They aren’t really living and they’re burning through their savings rapidly. Everything they’ve worked for is going away. Longevity doesn’t appear to be worth it.
It's obviously living to them. It's their money, and they prepared to spend it on staying alive to guide their family through life as far as they could. Wait until you break 70 and you will understand. Especially in today's world, the one driving force that keeps my wife and I going is to make sure our offspring will survive the coming hell that is staring us in the face.