Would you like to live to 100?

My mother is 104 but is demented. She smoked cigarettes when she was in her 20s and was subject to my father's continual secondhand smoke until he died. She may survive to be 105.

Only if I am of sound mind and am able to care for my own basic needs! Family around would be nice too! I’d hate to end up gaga and incontinent in a home.

Yes- but a few provisos

Health number one
Mobility number 2 and
People to talk to number 3- they are all dying off as I get older!

Oh- and a bit of residual brainpower might be nice,too.

I fully plan on reaching at least 100. (36 years to go)
I have several relatives that have reached 100+. I attended my aunties 100th birthday this spring. She still lives at home and is active at community events.

This is my DIL's great-aunt on her 100th birthday...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/31888028

I met her at a drinks-party years earlier when she'd just completed her first sky-dive!

Lovely post Whitewave

I don't mind getting to 100 if I am still able to look after myself, hold a sensible conversation, do Wordle and crosswords.

I hope to boast about my new knees (hips too?) and how I can still get up and down the stairs.

If not, them I'd rather not reach 100.

Another 25 years of this relentless pain? - heaven help me!

WWM2 and Primrose53, Very well said. First rate. Thank you both.

No, I’m disabled and will get progressively worse. I prefer a shorter life with a better quality.

Definitely - if my quality of life is decent. Life is so precious!

My stepfather will be 91y next week. He is tall, sprightly, mentally sharp as a tack and totally self caring. His brother enjoyed his 98th birthday at the weekend - lives in the Midlands too, not the coast! He too is totally self caring. If I were like either of these brothers, a long life would be wonderful thank you very much.

A lovely post from you Whitewave and a great photo of your grandmother Susan56!

Well said Whitewavemarket2 I agree totally..

My experience of extreme old age is entirely good.

Apart from my centenarian neighbour, my father lived to be 92 and was running several village organisation ontil his last short illness. Another of my aunts is still alive. She is 96 and still living independently. Another lived to be 91 and a fourth had just been cleared as being sound in wind and limb and on no medication, when he was killed in a car accident a few days short of his 90th birthday. Who knows how long he would have lived.

I don't want to live to be an age I can't look after myself, whenever that was

If am sound in mind and reasonably fit in body, why not?

Our neighbour was 100 two weeks ago. He lives independently, although he has some help, and he goes out for a mile walk everyday. He is as mentally alert as ever and was driving well into his 90s, when failing eyesight stopped him.

Charleygirl5

Thank you GMS. I am meeting GNs locally for coffee and on Sunday I am going out with a friend for lunch.

I will have an extra 25p added to my state pension each week, how did I cope before? Insufficient to buy a cup of coffee.

Happy 80th birthday for Friday, Charleygirl 🎂🥂

You'll need to save up the 25ps for a coffee!!

Happy birthday 🥳 for Friday Charleygirl. Hope you have a lovely day.

Me aged 7 ish..'Grandma, do you want to live to be 100?'
Grandma - 'Oh goodness, I hope not!'
I was absolutely baffled. Why on earth not?
Her husband died when she was 85 and she managed another good 10 years living alone until she fell and broke her hip. She then went into residential care and died just before her 99th Birthday. My parents thought we really were going to have to organise a party!
In my 60s I can now see that being 100 isn't necessarily a great idea!
A lady in our village has just turned 105. She was living alone until last year. We are coastal!

Thank you GMS. I am meeting GNs locally for coffee and on Sunday I am going out with a friend for lunch.

I will have an extra 25p added to my state pension each week, how did I cope before? Insufficient to buy a cup of coffee.

Happy birthday for Friday Charleygirl. 💐

I would be happy to get to 70.

Oh my goodness yes!
I would love to see all that is to come provided of course I am healthy and managing.
Age is just a number and I have been privileged enough to have cared for enough people over the years to have witnessed this.
So if all goes well why ever not.

I will be 80 on Friday. Divorced, no children, an only child and both parents died early 60's.

I have a good head of hair, admired by many.

I am independent at present but becoming forgetful. I doubt and actually hope I do not reach 90 as I am partially sighted and my mobility is not good.

This question makes me think of the old joke:

Who on Earth wants to be 94?
Answer: A 93 year old!!

As I've mentioned before, I am 93. I just hope I die quickly and painlessly before I begin to show the worst signs of old age.

My Offspring know I have DNR on my medical records.

Not unless I am in very good health and at least some of my friends and family are still around me.

I know too many people (not even aged 100) who have no family or friends left, so no one who knew them when they were young, the things they had done, the people they knew, the way life was. I don't live in the past but at least some of my enjoyment of life is meeting up with old friends and family and rehashing old family jokes and past times.

There can be some downsides to living to 100. Not just health issues but losing friends and family.