Though, if any part of me is still around at that point, it'll probably just be my personality uploaded into the computing cloud. I hope you don't mind a little transmission lag.
I'm totally serious about reaching 100. I'm now 61, and I seem to be in reasonably good health, aside from being fat and out of shape. And my great-grandfather lived to be 96, in full possession of his faculties until the end. According to current medical predictions, I can already expect to live into my late 80s - and with every year, those numbers go up. Forty years from now, making the century mark won't even be especially remarkable.
Actually, in the words of R.A.H., "I intend to live forever, or die trying." But if the meatware ever does get too worn out to repair, I'll upload myself so fast that the electrons will get warm ;-)
OK, that makes you only a few months younger than me. Dad died at 79, though, and I have cancer and heart disease on both sides of the family. Uploading's probably a better bet.
Good grief, you are older than I am! On the internet, that's extremely rare.
My dad died just a month shy of his 80th birthday, but he was a smoker. I don't have any discernable genetic pattern of disease - every one of my relatives died of different things. Which means I'll probably get hit by a meteorite or something...
And stroke. I've had a couple of TIAs, and Mom had a small stroke two days ago -- my brother called last night and assured me she's recovering OK, but it's still scary. Yes, I take blood thinners and aspirin.
I think my maternal grandfather died of a stroke, although it could have been a heart attack - it happened before I was born, and he died a week after his wife, my grandmother, died from TB. My paternal grandmother died in an insane asylum, probably of neglect; my grandfather, from lung cancer after fifty years of smoking. My father was pretty healthy, except for "smoker's cough", until he dropped dead of a massive heart attack. My mother died from complications of diabetes, which she developed after a weight loss procedure that was popular in the early 1960s destroyed her thyroid gland. She had two sisters and a brother; one sister died of lung cancer after being married to a smoker for forty years, the other of congestive heart failure resulting from high blood pressure, and her brother died of colon cancer in his eighties. So I don't know what in particular I should be taking steps to prevent... and I'm too lazy to be paranoid about everything. (I was even nearly struck by lightning once, but it missed, so I know that's not what's going to kill me.)
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acelightning!!! Have a great one!!
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Though, if any part of me is still around at that point, it'll probably just be my personality uploaded into the computing cloud. I hope you don't mind a little transmission lag.
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I'm totally serious about reaching 100. I'm now 61, and I seem to be in reasonably good health, aside from being fat and out of shape. And my great-grandfather lived to be 96, in full possession of his faculties until the end. According to current medical predictions, I can already expect to live into my late 80s - and with every year, those numbers go up. Forty years from now, making the century mark won't even be especially remarkable.
Actually, in the words of R.A.H., "I intend to live forever, or die trying." But if the meatware ever does get too worn out to repair, I'll upload myself so fast that the electrons will get warm ;-)
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My dad died just a month shy of his 80th birthday, but he was a smoker. I don't have any discernable genetic pattern of disease - every one of my relatives died of different things. Which means I'll probably get hit by a meteorite or something...
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