LIFE EXPECTANCY

May God be with you on this bittersweet day and may your remaining time here be filled with joy despite Ann's absence. You'll be with her soon enough at your joyful reunion in the Lord's house, and my in-laws (87 and 88) and many others prove that it's totally possible for seniors to appreciate this beautiful world even at an age well beyond what Moses discussed. You are a good husband to note this day - now go enjoy it as Ann would want, amigo. God bless you, and thank you for posting this, as it's a reminder for us all.
 
Phil, I extend to you my best birthday wishes. You are always a good read as you know how to play well with others.

Let me add to today's happy news. My late brother's only granddaughter, Alex (Alexandra) blessed us with a C-section, 2.7 pound premie this morning.

Alex and Drake Alexander are both doing fine.

My brother's birthday was Feb 8th and my beloved Ruthie's is Feb 17th.

February has produced some wonderful people. May was obviously a busy month.

All the best.

R&R
 
Phil, my condolences to you. We never forget the one we love, nor should we. My own dear Dianne left back in 2002 after an entirely too short time together or on this Earth.

On a slightly different subject, I recently realized that I have an annuity sitting there in space that has a break even point in 20 years. At that point I will be 87 and everything after is free money! Called the advisor and said we better get busy on spending this money. He wholeheartedly agreed, so I will soon be getting a (minor) upgrade to my monthly allowance. :) Not leaving anything on the table except my SW collection, which goes to the next gen.

edit to add: oh, also leaving a quite nice house :)
 
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Happy Birthday, Phil. I guess you are approaching what my grandkids call "older than dirt". I lost my wife of 28 years on 9/30/04. Never a day goes by that I don't think of her. I remarried eight years later, a great gal. She came with a m94 25-35, 1923 saddle carbine, an HS .22 with Lawrence stamped and laced holster inherited from her grandfather, and a snub .38. We have tons of fun fishing and hunting, camping, so life can go on. Best regards, Kevin
 
Igiveup said:
Happy Birthday, Phil. I guess you are approaching what my grandkids call "older than dirt". I lost my wife of 28 years on 9/30/04. Never a day goes by that I don't think of her. I remarried eight years later, a great gal. She came with a m94 25-35, 1923 saddle carbine, an HS .22 with Lawrence stamped and laced holster inherited from her grandfather, and a snub .38. We have tons of fun fishing and hunting, camping, so life can go on. Best regards, Kevin
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I'm glad to hear your story because it is similar to what happened in my family. My mother, after a long struggle with Lou Gehrig's Disease, died in 1991. My parents just made it to being married for 40 years. Soon thereafter, my dad starting dating again. He started seeing a lady he used to work with years before. She and my mother knew each other from before. Pop and my stepmother got married in 1992, and I was so happy for Pop that I was his best man at the wedding. Pop and my stepmother were then married until my stepmother passed on in 2015.
 
The longer you live the longer you can expect to live. Those "average" statistics include infant mortality, suicides, and everything else. Nice to hear about your angels. My wife will certainly go to heaven as well due to Satan's restraining order on and non-compete agreement with her. She has said that she will not divorce me because then I would have too much fun.
 
I lost my wife back in 2010. I still miss her. :(

I'm 66 and damned near died twice. I'm trying to take better care of myself. Hopefully, in a year or two, my younger son and his new bride will present me with a grandchild. I intend to hang around long enough for the kid to remember me. ;)
 
I've noticed that the older we get the more time we spend in the doctor offices and the funeral homes seeing our long time friends and relatives services. I guess it gives us something to do in our old age. You are very,very lucky to have had her as long as you did. My beautiful wife was killed 36 years ago at age 33 and left me with two very small children. They are grown and doing fine now. I wish she could have been here to see her four grands but it wasn't to be. She would be very proud of them. I still miss her and regret what could have been.
 
Phil, my friend, Happy Birthday! Losing ones wife, if you were really in love, is a tremendous burden to carry. At least we have our daughters and that is a great help.
 
HOUSTON RICK said:
The longer you live the longer you can expect to live. Those "average" statistics include infant mortality, suicides, and everything else.
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I have seen some tangible evidence of this. Back when I worked for the township part of the job was taking care of a very old cemetary, old enough to have a number of Revolutionary War veterans buried there. I noticed there were family groups of graves there, some with little headstones for children who died within a short time of each other. My theory was that there must have been an epidemic of some sort. There was a substantial number of people who survived into their 70s and 80s. There were very view people who died in what we would consider middle age. Now this one cemetary may not be a large enough sample to base a medical paper on, but what I took away from that old cemetary was that if you were able to make it to age 20, you had a pretty good chance of making it to age 80, even considering the state of medical science back in the early 1800s.
 
Golddoller, Typhoid almost wiped out complete families in the 1920's. My wife was two years old and the Dr. said she wouldn't live but thankfully she did. Her Dad, the father-in-law that I never had, died at the age of 42 from the same disease. One of her older sisters survived it also.
The old Salona Cemetery just outside of Bowie Texas has stones for what must have been complete families wiped out from Typhoid.
 
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