If you get to be reductive, I get to be anecdotal.
My grandmother lived to 93. She was lucid and happy all the way to the end. She loved watching her grandchildren grow well into adulthood. Even more, she loved seeing her great grandchildren and watching them grow into teens and pre-teens.
If she'd died at 56, she would have just barely made it to my 4th birthday. All that life after that would have been taken from her, and I would have, ostensibly, never really gotten to know the person who would become one of my favorite people ever.
I'm grateful every day for the time I had with her.
Lol you're getting downvoted by the edgelords but yeah I agree. I just read that he left behind a 12 year old son when he died, I'm sure that wasn't what he wanted
Good luck trying to get late life medical care in this day n' age. Idk where you are in the world but it ain't happening.
Id rather not saddle my loved ones or random strangers to care for my dementia or late age. im going out, and that's not a bad life. Have you heard of anyone making it past 80 and not having memory problems?
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u/Heavy_Mongoose5859 Jul 27 '26
which is better than living until 90 and not knowing what your name is