Old people

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This just kinda blows my mind and I thought it would be shared. I was watching the news last night and they featured a woman who just turned 100 here in Toronto, big deal right? Well yeah actually she was put into Auschwitz during WWII and she personally knew Anne Frank, I'm too lazy to get a link for the story, if you really want to see it it should be on www.cp24.com

edit: I just realized the guy lived through 2 world wars and an entire century. wow.
 
my grandparents are all 80~sth but their physical state is bad and/or deteriorating. probably won't make it to 100 except my grandfather who is stable but paralysed. but god knows I hope he doesn't make it to 100. i wouldn't want to live in a wheelchair for 20 years.
 
Yeah, it's getting pretty ridiculous these days. All the medicinal advances in the past 100 years make it so life expectancy has skyrocketed. I personally think it's ludicrous to live so long, unless you're still self-serving, functional and independent. For instance: my great-grandmother is 102 and spends every waking second in a home. Whenever she has visitors, she justs sits there crying the whole time. She wants to die.
 
all that's left of my great grandparents is my 89 year old great grandmother, she refuses to move from her house out in the country. She's a strong woman, but she's had surgery on her knees and hips in the last two years I dont think she can keep living on her own out there.

that said, it would kill her to leave. once she leaves that house (which her and her husband built with their bare hands) her life will pretty much be over.
 
I have only one grandparent left, my Grandmother who is 84. She has been going strong for a long time, but was recently in hospital with various problems. She was released last week and is recovering well in her own home, and remains independent. She constantly says she wants to go if she ever loses her independence.
 
well three of my four grandparents had died before I was 2 (2 in the same year), the other one died a few years ago, she had two strokes about 7-8 years before she died and managed to survive in good health, though with many disabilities.

but they weren't really young or anything she was in her mid 80's when she died, the other 2 were in late 70's.
 
All of my grandfathers are dead. Doesn't bode too well for the family males. However, my grandmothers are still alive. One I do not hear too much from, she lives up north in the fanciful land of New England. However, my other grandmother, Nana, does live nearby. She lives on a houseboat. Kid you not. She's about eighty-five, and I swear that that boat she's lived on has been through a dozen hurricanes without sinking. My mom even made a joke once that she wanted to pay a guy to sink it. She's extremely tough, really, and drives everyone crazy because of it. I could see her living for quite a while in good health.
 
Same thing here. Both of my grandfathers have died. One in his 40's and the other at 78 who had to deal with cancer for 3 years. My grandmothers are both alive and it seems that almost every woman in my family outlives the men lol. They're both at about 80. One of them can still run beleive it or not.
 
my grandmother is over 90 years old, and she's a happy old person, despite not being able to hear anything and barely being able to walk around the block.

she still lives to see my sister though, who is only 3 years old and has never seen her grandmother in person.
 
My dog is 20 years old. If you go by the 7x rule, he's 140 years old. He's a deaf dog, but happy as heck. I think the secret to long-living dogs is chicken, turkey, and any other meat. Also the ability to crap inside.
 
I work at an assisted living center, where the service there is wonderful. Many of the people there are in their 80s+, I know some have lived pass 100,
Some tell stories about their times in WWII, etc. Many of them are also philosophers, artists, etc. It's pretty interesting to meet some of these people.

Unfortunately, some residents there have dementia or other diseases, and thus cannot function without others helping them. Some don't even know who they are, and thus in front of their doors, there's like a "shoebox" containing pictures of them and their family, items that remind them of hobbies, etc.
 
One of my grandfathers died at 57 of a heart attack (he'd be 85 now), and the other died August 4th, 2004 of old age at the age of 77. My grandmothers are both alive and living on their own far away in suburb/rural areas outside Kazan, Russia and it really surprises me that they are living independent lives in their 80s.
 
My grandmother is still driving the school bus at 79, she'll be 80 next year. While, she shows no signs of slowing down, it's almost scary though to think of how badly she'd feel if something were to happen. We've been trying to convince her to retire for the last 5 or 6 years but in truth, her job is what really keeps her going. She looks and acts like she's in her early 60's. Her sister, my aunt, is 87 and still working at the local Hallmark store.

My grandpa is 85 and really slowed down 3 years ago. However, he got a hip replacement shortly after and was right back out playing basketball with my brothers and me again.

My other grandfather died in his 50's or 60's before I was born from cancer and my other grandmother is in her 70's and doing well.
 
all my grandfathers have died but I still have 2 Grandmothers and 1 Great grandmother left. One died at the age of 35 from a heart attack (ouch) and my other grandfather died at 40 from lung cancer. Both of my other great grandfathers died of old age.. I wonder what that tells us.
 
Life expectancy is huge now. People expect to live to their nineties. All my grandparents have passed away except for my maternal grandfather. He's 84 and not doing that well but a year ago, he used to do so much and had more strength than any guy in their 20's. He's just had a very bad year but still, 111 is mad.
 
Heh, rad pic, NFS.

My only living grandparent is my 71-year-old grandmother; other than knee problems and pain in her neck (which required surgery to insert one of those 'spacer' things), she's doing just fine; she still takes care of a garden and orchard, still keeps a good house, and she's a pretty interesting conversationalist.
 
good thing i don't have to worry about that, with my lifestyle i'll be lucky to get to my 70's. i don't think living into your 90s-100s is a good thing really, since very few people that old get to live with their families and instead are forced to either live alone, or with a bunch of other miserable fogies. so, if you're lucky enough to have retained your memories, all those years generally hold are a lot of remeniscing about your soon-to-be over life and sadness over the fact you don't get to see your family when all you want is to be with them 24/7. ugh...i think i'm gonna go to mcdonalds and smoke a few bowls...
 
Priory Of Sion said:
My dog is 20 years old. If you go by the 7x rule, he's 140 years old. He's a deaf dog, but happy as heck. I think the secret to long-living dogs is chicken, turkey, and any other meat. Also the ability to crap inside.
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actually, the new thing is, the first 2 years count as 24 years, and eery year after that is 4 years because that's how dogs age compared to humans.

So: 24 + 18(4) = 96. Sorry.
 
PM said:
actually, the new thing is, the first 2 years count as 24 years, and eery year after that is 4 years because that's how dogs age compared to humans.

So: 24 + 18(4) = 96. Sorry.
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Actually, a LOT of it depends on the size of the dog and it's breed. So, although the new method is more accurate, it still does not give a completely accurate depiction of a dog's age. Next time you go to a vet, you can pick up a flyer with a handy age chart for that.
 
I knew there's a new method to it, I was just too lazy to look for it, but thanks for it though. My dog is a Yorkshire Terrier, which has an average life expectancy of 12 to 14 years old, so it's 6 past it, which I guess is pretty good.

I've heard of several different ways of human to dog years, actually. The chart at the vet did that first three years = fifteen years, each year after is 3 years. I don't know what to believe anymore.

As Notorious said, you can't really use one thing for all dogs. I hope my dog will live past 29. (break the record)
 
OK back to the subject of old people rather than dogs..

i agree with all the posts here, there is a difference between living longer and just being alive for longer. our culture treats death in such a way that most people don't realise when their time has come, and are afraid of what happens next. i know i will be.

on a slightly different aspect, there must be a list of like the top 10 oldest people in the world.. the only way this title can be handed down is for the eldest to pop their clogs. a rather morbid competition!
 
Scientists are constantly trying to increase the human life span, but unless you keep a good health, it's not worth it unless you enjoy staying imobilized for the rest of your life, for instance.
 
Wow that really is amazing but I dont know if I would want to live to 111. My two gandmothers and one grandfather are all around 80 years of age and the three of them are very capable and independant. My other grandfather died two years back of cancer.

The great thing about older people is the stories of their lives. You can learn so much about the past from them, and they seem to really enjoy telling about it.
 
Yeah Sklez, old folks rule.

My grandparents are both in their late 70's and of Italian descent. Grampa is from Sicily, while Gramma is from Abruzzio (spelling?), which is south of Rome.

They're both in pretty good health, though Gramma is somewhat handicapped from a car accident. She can't drive and uses a cane.

They're both devout Catholics, and all-around wonderful people. According to Gramma, it's always gloomy weather on Good Friday because the heavens are crying.

Grampa owns his own big, beautiful strip of woods in Pennsylvania Amish country, and he built the house they live in now. He also enjoys watching the little birdfeeder we got him.

We see them up to three times a year, because it's the only chance Mom gets to see them. They're always so happy to see us <3

It seems that the happiest people I meet are the 60-80 set, 'cause they don't have kids/school/job to get 'em down and they've got a lot of wisdom.
 
i love the innocent racism of old people

i remember we went to a mothers day dinner and a reasturant and my step grandmother commented on all the black people there and wondered if they took a bus from philly

good stuff
 
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