Assume You're 90 Yrs old. Would You Want Your Grandkids to Work an Extra 20 hrs/Week to Help you Live 2 Years

Traditionally, when people became too old to be of use (and don't sell 90 year olds short on that!) and became a burden on The Village, they went out on the ice.

My hope is that if someone puts me in a 'home' or hospital, I can make it out the window and get killed in traffic so my tombstone can read "killed while escaping".

My mum always said she didnt want to make it past 70. Now she is 65 and she things a little differently. I'd be devastated if she was gone in 5 years yet I don't want to go past 70. I suppose the point I'm trying to make is, when your young, it is easy to look at older people and say you don't want to look like/walk like/act like/think like they do but when you get there you may not feel as old as you thought you would. 20-25 years may seem long enough but when you get to year 19, you might not think so.

If I were 90 years old, I would probably want to be dead. The only way that I would be happy at 90 years of age, is if I was a healthy person. But most likely by that time, I will be an old helpless person. I would want my life to end and all of the pain and suffering in my life and the burden on my kids, if I had any, to stop!

I don't want anyone supporting me in my old age. I don't want to see a younger generation saddled with the debt of a broken social security system that the Democrats have stymied any attempt to reform. I don't want universal health care either.

I'll settle for a dignified death when the time comes.

Well, we all worked for our Parents, so they could benifit from Social Security. And it is our duty to take care of all our Responsibility, and that includes our Grandparents. I would do that for them. What goes around, comes back around. Then my Grandchildren can benifit from the same program, when they get old.

Thats what DNR's are for!

(Do Not Resuscitate)

You can fill out a form, preventing someone from taking actions to save your life. (Unless of course they are protected by the good samaritan law). People do it all the time when they know they are going to die soon.

The first question - hell no.

The last question - one extra year right now, or one extra year at 90? I have a lot left that I want to do, it may be worth 20 million....

Perhaps we should just exterminate people when they turn 70. I want all available technologies used to let me live.

live extra years to do what?

heck yes i would

damn wipersnappers are ungrateful anyway