What would you do if your doctor said you have only 80 years left to live?
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"Well, hopefully medical science will advance enough in the intervening years to give me another 9 1/2, because I'd really like to see in the 22nd century".
But yeah, more than I'm realistically expecting to get. No-one in my family has outlasted 91 yet (trailblazer: my grandmother, still going strong at 90.5; remaining span unknown and unassessed)
But yeah, more than I'm realistically expecting to get. No-one in my family has outlasted 91 yet (trailblazer: my grandmother, still going strong at 90.5; remaining span unknown and unassessed)
I'd probably laugh and say, 'Thanks doc, now please tell me how long until I collect my paps inheritance and I'll be on my way'.
Isn't it interesting how the side-effect of this thread seems to be that we're all learning just how old everyone else is?
Anyway, I'd love to live to see 99, as long as it's a healthy 99. I don't wanna ever have to have someone pick me up and carry me to the bathroom.
Anyway, I'd love to live to see 99, as long as it's a healthy 99. I don't wanna ever have to have someone pick me up and carry me to the bathroom.
No 80 years, the fact that its such a ludicrously large number rather than a smaller one is sorta the jokeJinxyKatte said:
Multiply yours by 3, and add 2 is mine.SimuLord said:
OT: That would also put me at 113. I think I would let everyone know that I was going to be around a while longer (there would be much... what's the opposite of rejoicing?) -- then I would get to doing things that would shorten that number a tick - motorcycle racing, drinking, lots of sex, while motorcycle racing... suntanning... you know dangerous things.
I laughed.SimuLord said:
Personally, I'd go about living life like a normal human being. With 80 years, I'd be over 100 when I finally kicked in. Don't know if I want to go on THAT long, but whatever. Most people don't live that long so I'd say it's good news.
I'd also ask him where he got his PhD, because how would he figure I'd live that long? There's way too many odd circumstances that could cut a person's life short. What a bizarre thing for any doctor to tell me. "I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but you'll have a long life." "Really? I was hoping for a short one."
