Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect::undefined

    • @pixeltree@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      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

      • @Pipoca@lemmy.world
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        132 years 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.

    • @Smoogs@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      Well they are lead to believe that a life of eating Big Macs is a normal diet and dying with diabetes at 70 is absolutely the normal human condition.