The more songs you write, the longer it will take you to decompose.

I am okay with 85 or so. As long as one can make it to the dessert and coffee cart is a good rule of thumb.

As long as I'm relatively self-sufficient.

Don't really care what the number is.

Been thinking about this a lot lately. My grandfather ('49) passed away a few weeks ago and he was my last grandparent to go. Lived to 97 which is incredible.

But the last year or so of his life seemed really unpleasant. He remarried after my grandmother passed and his second wife died within the last 2 years. That alone has to be deflating.

In his last year he actually asked my dad (his son) to just give him a gun. I think that was tough for my dad to hear.

I just want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

I wouldn't mind checking out when I'm 75. I'm 59 now. Got a great place to go when I'm done here.

I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna cross that river
I'm gonna catch tomorrow now

Right now I would say around 80, but I have a feeling if you asked me again when I am 79 and I'll likely give you a different answer

Jugstore Cowboy said:

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As long as I'm relatively self-sufficient.

Don't really care what the number is.

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Same. We call it "sharpening the curve" at my clinic. We want long healthy independent lives and then when our time comes, its over peacefully. We don't want years of deteriorating/painful health at the end

Um

At least until the Demon Spawn graduates

I have a friend of my dad who is 91 and still passes his flight physical and still flys his airplane. Got another friend that is 86 and hunts in Colorado for Elk and Mule Deer.
The key is getting daily exercise and eating healthy.
I wanna go as long as I can race my boat and do my ranch work.
Hope the Good Lord sees to it that I'm here one minute and gone the next…..in the outdoors fishin or huntin or running a fast boat. . and not in a damn nursing home or hospital room….and a burden to no one.

Gunny has the idea I think. I know people my age (60's) that are severely limited in mobility. Others, like my Dad, at 91 still drives just fine, runs a tractor, feeds horses, and works harder outside than guys much younger. Hard to put a number on it.

fishnvet said:

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Gunny has the idea I think. I know people my age (60's) that are severely limited in mobility. Others, like my Dad, at 91 still drives just fine, runs a tractor, feeds horses, and works harder outside than guys much younger. Hard to put a number on it.

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"Well I don't know
But I've been told
You never slow down
You never grow old"

Tom Petty

I don't have a number. I just know if I'm permanently incapacitated, pooping myself, can't feed myself, can't make decisions for myself and my family keeps putting me in the hospital for aggressive treatment instead of hospice I will try as hard as possible to become a ghost when I die and mercilessly haunt them.

// Angry rant warning
Seen way too many families keep dementia-riddled, bedsore-laden, clearly suffering grannies and pop-pops alive just so they can say granny and pop-pop are still "alive." It's at the point where they are gurgling on their own saliva, can't clear their own throats, can't eat, can't move, and just moan instead of talk and you're not only putting them in the hospital nonstop for expensive antibiotics for their chronic UTIs and pneumonia, you're refusing to even make them a DNR. It is cruel. Hospice is wonderful. Use it.
// End of angry rant

I'm not really afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I think you younger guys will adjust your number as you get older. I'm 68 and live in a golf retirement community. I'm on the younger end in my group of friends that plays golf 4 days a week. None are over 80 but several are pushing it. When I get out early there are people walking, heading to the pool, playing pickleball or tennis. For me and my friends life begins at retirement. Keep yourself active and the best is yet to come.

Until 8:37 pm on 11/27/2067.

Spoiler - Texas A&M still will not have won a National Championship in College Football.

Whenever God decides. I'm prepared whenever.

90, then I'm doing heroin.