Good health or not, I don't think I would want to live to be 120. Just think, every time you'd say, "I miss the old days," you could just as we'll be refering to when you were 90 as to when you were 25.
A while ago, I was talking with a man who is in his seventies whose father is still alive and close to 100 (and very sharp mentally although rather frail physically) and he recounted what his father said at a recent birthday celebration: "You know, after a while, birthdays and Christmases and other events seem to blur into one another. Perhaps humans only have a finite capacity for that sort of thing." I think that's worth thinking about before planning to live to 120: would we outlive our capacity for fun, for joy?
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Good health or not, I don't think I would want to live to be 120. Just think, every time you'd say, "I miss the old days," you could just as we'll be refering to when you were 90 as to when you were 25.
And you couldn't retire until you were 100...
A while ago, I was talking with a man who is in his seventies whose father is still alive and close to 100 (and very sharp mentally although rather frail physically) and he recounted what his father said at a recent birthday celebration: "You know, after a while, birthdays and Christmases and other events seem to blur into one another. Perhaps humans only have a finite capacity for that sort of thing." I think that's worth thinking about before planning to live to 120: would we outlive our capacity for fun, for joy?
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