Reminds me of an old Nick Swardson joke.
“How are you doing grandma?” “Well I woke up again… and all of my friends are dead.”
Take care of yourself and your older years don’t need to be shitty. Look at Dick Van Dyke. I know you’ll say “but he has money”, and that’s certainly part of it, but he also kept dancing and exercising, and didn’t abuse his body with drugs and shitty food.
The best time to clean up your diet, reject drugs and alcohol, and start exercising is when you’re a teen. The second best time is right now. No one can do it for you.
Obviously, this doesn’t work for everyone, there are always exceptions.
The best time to clean up your diet, reject drugs and alcohol, and start exercising is when you’re a teen.
Even if you don’t live to be a hundred years old, it’ll sure feel like you did! /s
Obligatory age research finding: those 100+ year olds may not be 100+ years old after all.
They changed the IG noble since I last looked. Used to be “BS useless” stuff like the airodynamics in grains of rice. (Ofc now someone will link a PubMed article stating that this research holds the key to a universal cure for cancer)
The 100+ years old in Norway can usually back the claim up by pretty scrupulous documentation. Not surprising that there is some shady pension scam going in south Italy tbh.
Yes but, the effect of those earlier records is now completely died down (so to speak). Per PBS, Pew research , and the US Census
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In 1950 there were about 15 centarians per million people
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In 2000, there were about 50,000 centarians per million people
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In 2010, there were 53,364
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In 2020, there were 80,139
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In 2024, about 101,000
Wonder why the drop around 2010.
At first I thought Covid until I looked more closely at the labels on the x axis.
Maybe it was the fema camps. Thanks Obama?
That was just slightly after the housing bubble crisis from 2008. Maybe that’s related.
Edit: oh right it’s percentage of population. Maybe there were more births?
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Yeah. My grandmother is in that situation. She is a grandmother to me but she’s a great great grandmother for some of my family.
She moved in a nursing home more than a decade ago expecting to be there for a few years but she’s now 98, losing eyesight, hearing and mobility, and hopes it will end at some point. When she caught covid we thought she might have got what she wanted, but no.
That’s horrible. Should be a humane way to move on.
She is trying to get medical assistance in dying, which is possible here under certain conditions, but just not for people in her case. She’s a Catholic so, well… she’s praying.
Man, my heart goes out to you brother. That’s a tough spot for her, and you to be in. I hope you hang in there with her until the end so she knows there’s at least someone in the family who was sad to finally see her go.
And fingers crossed the state or country or similar grants an exception in her case. Best of luck friend.
My father rn, only in his late eighties. Slowly letting himself die, won’t do anything to help himself or let us help him except bring food and wine and do his shopping. Literally ran out of tp and used paper towels instead of going out and buying some. And he can drive and get around but won’t for most basic shit. Fucking tiring shit
late eighties
tiring shit
Yeah I’d be done too.
My dad too, same thing. Only out of bed for a few hours a day, not because he can’t, because he won’t. Except I think he’s still in his 70s… Borderline to hit 80s tho
My FIL was like that, but she had cut the toxic cord well before he passively killed himself.
Unfortunately he ended up dying on Valentine’s Day which really soured the holiday for a while.
Genuinely scary to think that I might only be 50% of the way through my life. I was looking forward to a nice rest.
How did it feel before you were born?
After you die, it’s like that again.
It was like that for billions of years and it didn’t bother me in the least.
That thought used to scare me to death. Now that I’m older… Yeah, I can let all this grief go when it’s time. It’ll be nice.
Sounds nice to me
The different kind of midlife crisis
Mid-century crisis.
You might be immortal. The only way you’d find out you’re not is if you die.
Gos this would be the worst kind of immorality Continuing to age, but never dying
According to John Mayer, “I am invincible as long as I’m alive”
"Some men achieve immortality through their work.
Some men achieve immortality through their children.
I want to achieve immortality through Not Dying."
-Woody Allen
I achieved immortality through some rather embarrassing news articles that still show up in search results.
I will be legitimately upset if I make it past the world average, much less 40 years past that.
