How long do you expect to live?

[JOERM]

I would like to think I'll never die but hope to live to 100 and on that birthday drop dead that night. Realistically I'd be satisfied to live a healthy life to 90. I would rather live a life of quality than quantity.

 

[Faulkner]

Longer than I deserve. With some of the crazy things I've done and experianced it's a wonder I made it this far.

 

[chud333]

I've lived a full life and done and seen most of what i've wanted to do.
I don't really have any hopes other than to die quickly.
Just don't want to be a burden to family/others. I'm only 52 and
hopefully still have a few good years ahead but don't want to
suffer a dibilitating stroke or some affliction where I lose my mental
capacity, like altzheimers or such. I've been blessed and will take
whatever the good lord has planned for me in the end.


chuck

 

[Evil Dog]

I'm pretty much with chud333 on this one. I suppose that I've already lived longer than I should as I've never been one for making healthy decisions. Finally quit smoking a dozen years back but COPD is taking it's toll. I still maintain that if it isn't red, it isn't meat. Fish and chicken I really have no use for. My final arrangements have already been made and paid for... instructions are in the gun safe in an envelope marked "for when I'm dead".

How long do I realistically expect to live? I'm 65 now and would really be surprised to see 75. Until then I'm out to the local range at least 4 times a week.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I want to die before any of my children-preferably well into my 90's-knock on wood but I've got the genes on my side

 

[HAWKEYE10]

I will be 70 the 7th of June but the way I feel I might not make it. My daughter moved in a new to her house in a nice neighborhood and I have been trying to fix up the yard. The inside was fixed up nice but the landscaping was lacking. Well I been pressure washing trimming bushes raking and the like. Monday I rented a chainsaw and cut down a pretty big tree and cut back eight bushes that were way to big. That night I was really tired and sore so I went to bed early. Got up the next mourning and was still sore but went over there and worked anyway. Today I felt really bad. Every bone in my body hurt and I wondered if I was going to make it. That tree kicked my tush. Don

PS You guy's that have daughters know what I am talking about.

 

[rburg]

Hmmm. I have no idea. Nearly died 2 years ago, but with some plumbing help I'm getting pretty good flow to my heart now. Not all that great to my brain..... My dad died at 69. I'm hoping to get that far, but its just 5 more years so maybe. With modern medical science, might even make it to 74. But with Obamacare, I'll be doing it on my own dime.

I hope to live long enough to make it to the next gun show or two in June.

 

[mjr]

I hope to die just a few months after the dementia sets in.

 

[azalea]

Plan to go for as long as you find a enjoyment of life. Some people can find happiness even with very serious physical/health issues; others reach a point where it's just not fun anymore.

I'm aiming for 100 or more. Corporations (employment) have taken so much out of my life that I'm looking forward to hopefully having a few decades to myself -- some might say I could have chosen something other than corporate employment, but in my circumstances, I had no realistic alternative choice unless I chose to be broke.

 

[Smith357]

I never expected to live past 30, here I am at 51.

 

[mg357]

I would like to live to age of 85 since i was born in 1985. But when the good lord calls me home i will go.

 

[Old Seabee]

Living

If I thought I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself , I am 66

 

[Marshwheeling]

My father died at 80, as did his father before him. That's the only guidance I have. My father ate and drank too much, but never smoked. My grandfather chewed his cigars. I smoke my cigars, eat too much, but I never seem to be able to drink enough. A couple of cocktails, a couple of times a week. That's just not enough.

 

[venomballistics]

I never expected to live past 30, here I am at 51.

felt much the same way in my 20's ...now I just intend to live till Im dead

 

[Old Corp]

At 54, I feel great. No limitations that matter.
30 years of rotating shift-work behind me, and statistics show that does make a difference in longevity. Guess we'll see.......

 

[Kanewpadle]

Long enough to reign terror on this forum!!

 

[DCWilson]

Barring natural disasters, catastrophic health events, bad driving and falls, I figure I am probably good until my mid-80s. That's about another 20 years.

Might go longer if I got the right genes from both parents. My mother's mother made it to 100, and there is a documented super-centenarian on my father's side in the 1850 census. He was 118 when he died that year. Family tradition says he was 123, but it is probably wiser to trust the contemporary records (his children have advanced ages, too).

 

[zonker5]

I will be 70 the 7th of June but the way I feel I might not make it. My daughter moved in a new to her house in a nice neighborhood and I have been trying to fix up the yard. The inside was fixed up nice but the landscaping was lacking. Well I been pressure washing trimming bushes raking and the like. Monday I rented a chainsaw and cut down a pretty big tree and cut back eight bushes that were way to big. That night I was really tired and sore so I went to bed early. Got up the next mourning and was still sore but went over there and worked anyway. Today I felt really bad. Every bone in my body hurt and I wondered if I was going to make it. That tree kicked my tush. Don

I just turned 70 a couple of months back and have found it is much easier on my old body to just write a check to some young guy than it is to try to do the heavy lifting myself.

 

[Fredo Batali]

Had four good chances to go, two accidents and two violently. Made it through all four with the Lords help. When I finish His work for me here He'll take me home. Hoping He keeps me real busy here for a while longer though.

De Oppreso Liber

 

[feralmerril]

I will be 71 in a couple days. Dad died at 90. I have a uncle 94, had a aunt or two hit a 100. The fact is I am 300 lbs, had a knee operation last year, still have weak knees, beat cancer but lost my nose doing it. Fat and waaay out of shape. I rode two quad rides in the last few days. Just got home from a nice 40 mile trail ride today, so I am active when it comes to that sort of thing. My wife made me promise I would give her 40 good years when we got married 8 years ago. (She is 17 years my junior). Lets see: Thats 32 years from now--- I will be a 103. Guess I have my work cut out for me.
Seriously, I want to live as long as I can but I thank God for each day as they come. When I was a youth my mother told me numerous times she didnit think I would make 21. I just dont want alzheimers. I figure I already beat death somewhere around 50 times.