Cabbie21
Iām hoping I stay healthy enough to enjoy the rest of my days, however long or short. What I donāt want is to live for many years, but in poor health or with dementia.
With you on that one - I personally certainly would not want time with major health problems.
I've made out a list of minor ailments stuff (if one counts deaf in one ear as minor.....) to get rid of and am working my way through them currently to remove them.
Each to their own and a lot is going to depend on personal circumstances. There's part of me that thinks "It's taken me all these years (ie decades) to get into a passable financial situation - ie having spent most of my life scrimping/scraping/doing extra work on top of a full-time job = so I should have some time to make the best of having finished with poverty at last. Not wealthy - but getting on with my modest lifestyle without having to worry about every penny any longer".
There's another part of me that thinks "I'm steadily getting more disillusioned with the world and many of the people in it and can't see anything much 'new' on the horizon for me - and so might as well leave pretty soon now".
Haven't been able to get hold of that Telegraph article - as was hoping to have a go at that calculator and not been able to find any other - ie where one can put in personal stuff that will affect it one way or another. So all I can go by is my erstwhile younger brother (late 60's) is still "sorta alive" and both my parents were "sorta alive" until 93. I say "sorta alive" to differentiate from "alive without having had major medical work done that kept them alive". I'm "naturally alive" as I call it (ie no major medical work - and I made the decision long ago that I wouldnt choose to be "revived - and sorta alive"). Other people will make other choices - but my own choice is "alive and well" or "forget it - I don't want to know".
