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How long would be long enough? If you were in reasonable good health and mental fitness how long would you want to live? How much of the human condition would you want to be a part of?

We talk about "afterlife" in ways as it applies to religions and heaven but I personally would think heaven would be boring as hell for me.

However, watching humans grow and evolve... I might want to stick around for a bit to see what happens if I could stand the awfulness of human behavior too.

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NoPlanetB 8 Dec 23
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On a side note: an interesting fictional read on the subject, "Immortal Man" by Simone de Beauvoir.

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When the time comes and I can no longer wipe my own ass, I don't want to be here anymore.

I'm not afraid of death, it's inevitable.
That said, I'm in no hurry to leave either.

It'll happen when it happens. Until then, I'm gonna keep on truckin'.

@Aurora62 When my mother was near the end of life, I DID "wipe her ass" in one of the most beautiful, funny and moving (no pun intended) moments of our time together. She was an amazing person, and kept her wit and positive outlook til the end. Please don't dis something that you've never done.

@Ellen-SoCal Neither of us said we wouldn't assist someone else.
I said I didn't want to be here when I couldn't wipe my own, so did @Aurora62.

I have NO intention to experience that in any way, shape, or form.
Your experience with your mother was YOURS.
I didn't "dis" it. Neither did she.

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I think the subject is pointless really, but given my life and shit I've done I'm fortunate to have lived long enough to meet my first, and so far only, grandchild, but dying isn't something I look to with fear or regret.

JimG Level 8 Dec 23, 2019
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I'm already a dinosaur. I hate what we have become socially so I avoid it. I'm talking about living every moment on an expensive phone that has become your everything and your very self. It is common to see people all in one room and texting each other. This is not me or my way of life. I know it is not 1960 anymore but I'm not so sure I want to stick around and see how this all turns out. Finding a female who can agree with this and live with me would work out well but my record so far is only about 12 years at a time.

I totally agree. I find cell phone users rather rude. I really make the effort to make conversation.

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I wish to die when my quality of life is no longer meaningful and when I believe that I have become a burden to others. At age 82, I cannot specify an age.

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An extra thousand years would be awesome. Forever would be scary but I'd love to be long lived enough for insterstellar round trips to be a thing.

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I don't see "never conceived" as an option. Pity.

I’d vote for never conceived.

That's boring though.

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Depends on a few things besides mental/physical health. Just me or my wife also? I don't want any extra years without her.

Do I have resources, at least enough so I don't have to work and get to choose what I do with those years, or do I have to work? I gotta work, no thanks - waaaaaay to many things to do in this world besides work.

A few, maybe couple hundred years would be fun, interesting, and allow me (us) to learn and experience a whole host of things which is kinda what life (for me) is about.

What I don't want is to live to long, to the point that I'm waiting for death to find me.

1of5 Level 8 Dec 23, 2019
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Ask me when I don't have to work and have enjoyed myself to death.

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There is so much cool stuff that's (hopefully) going to happen eventually... Colonization of Mars, maybe a few planets moons or asteroids.. Not to mention technology here on earth that can make life better and such... I'd want to live 1000 years if at all possible and I could be in good health, but even towards the end of thst, I'm sure I'd be wanted to see much more in the future.

Gener Level 5 Dec 23, 2019
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I'm 66 now. My dad is going to be 95 next month. I don't want to be 95. I'm hoping for another 20 years or so, but who knows? If I can stay healthy, 86 seems like long enough. Ask me again when I'm 85.

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"You have voted for: I'm happy with whatever I get now."

Reality on reality's terms. I'm here for however long I am here. I try to enjoy it for as long as I can do so.

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We all die, who knows when? It can be today, or tomorrow, or in 10byears. Why bother with unreal scenarios?

@NoPlanetB good luck getting "what you want."

@NoPlanetB ah, fishing for points, well, good for you then.

@NoPlanetB i actually speak 6 languages and can read in all of them, including english.

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The problem with the idea of living forever, is that if not everyone lived forever history would dtill find us repeating the same mistakes over and over again... and that would get old disappointing and depressing after a while. T^o live forever would be to face disappointments for eternity... that just does seem all that appealing to my cynical mind.

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I'd like forever with an option to stop at any time. Maybe give me a pause option too while you're at it. Like, let me be dead for a few months, years, decades and come back later.

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Depends, after health is only one area. I would not want to stay around under s system which we seem headed, dictatorship.

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My mother, at age 85, (she lived to be 98 ), once said to me, "In my head, I feel and think as if I am in my twenties. Then I pass a mirror and look and say to myself, 'Who is that old person?' "

I am now twenty years out from that age, and can say unequivocally that I took far better care of myself than she did (knowledge was limited on long-term health issues pre 1950s), and I know I will age less than she did at comparable times of life.

Yet I know exactly what she meant now... My mind is sharp, my tongue witty, and yet I am just as surprised as she was when I pass a mirror.

I want to live a long and healthy life, and not get to the end of it before I am ready.

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Tolerating this shit hole has been a struggle so far, I've long said 70 years will be more than enough for me, but if I go tomorrow I will have achieved everything I ever wanted to do and am pretty sure my family is provided for adequately.

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I'll take what I get and I'll be happy with it, for otherwise I'd need a good type 40 with an intact dimensional stabilizer being I don't have the patience to wait for the answers.

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Aside from maintaining my health, and using common sense, I have little control over my lifeline - so it's not something I concern myself with. Eh.

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Depends on physical and mental health

bobwjr Level 10 Dec 23, 2019

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With the condition of good physical and mental health, I would want to stay alive until I reached a catatonic state of disinterest. I anticipate that it would take a very long time before I reached that state.

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Mom’s 94 and I see her daily struggles. She was pretty good up until her late 80’s. So, I’m hoping /planning for 90.

CS60 Level 7 Dec 23, 2019
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I would like to reach 100 if I could remain in good health. I worked for a woman on her 100th birthday and she was out in the garden.

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Not sure I could put a time limit on it. It depends on good health and am I still interested in what's going on around me. Not that I'm super active or anything like that.

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I'm a health nut, my goal was to reach 120 years old, but now I would settle for age 100 realistically. .
Heaven would be a funny farm and hell likely a hot nightclub. It would be more probable to be reincarnated as bigfoot or an alien than to be sent to Yaweh heaven. If I had my choice to be reincarnated it would be either a lesbian or a redwood tree. Oh Wow!!! I get a Woody thinking about it.

Some people suffer rather than being happy. Everybody's got some kind of delusional, I like mind to be at lease pleasureble.

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