There was a guy who retired at lockheed years ago and croaked loading his tool box in the truck!!
Last year I had a friend on L.A.P.D. I belive he had about 43 years on, and was one of the highest senoirority on the entire dept. The last few months he started comeing down with alzheimers and his friends covered and buried his strange actions. He wasnt retired over a couple months, put into a convalesant home and died a few months after that! His brother is my best friend in california and has kept me posted. He has great animosity with his sister in law, as she kept encourageing his brother to stay on the dept far longer than he should have.
I just wish I would have done far more of the things I liked doing when I could have! That was mostly flying and motorcycle rideing. Now I am fighting to update my flying medical, and it looks dismal! Just got a letter back yesterday that they are reviewing my records and will let me know in 30 days. I rode a ton of miles on mostly harleys, maybe over 200,000 miles, and now I dont have a bike. The wife is almost as big as me and has a bad back, and we cant comfortly ride the biggest together. Also, she wont fly with me, and anyway my plane would be overloaded, and it would be nice to take gas along! My thing now is exploring on our large 2 seat quad.
I spend a LOT of time talking to you guys on the computer. It takes the place of my coffee clutch friends I left when we moved here.
The moral of this is retire quick as you can, do a lot of what you like now, as you very well might not be in shape to when you get old!
Hell, I didnt know how to type untill I got a computer about 10 years ago. Now, if I could just learn to spell!