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Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect::undefined

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've seen both of my grandfathers become shadows of who they were due to alzheimers and I really hope I don't live long enough for that to happen to me. Fate worse than death, I think that's reasonable

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Living to 120 would be great if that comes from getting four more decades of what my patents and grandparents were in their 60s and 70s: fine day-to-day, but maybe they needed a scooter to do a full day at Disney closer to the end. Not as young as they used to be, but still basically able to do everything they used to, just maybe a bit slower.

Living to 120 would be terrible if you get an extra 40 years in a memory care unit.