How many years are you planning to be retired?

[Khan]

I just wonder if the desire/libido disappears at some point as part of aging.

Audrey

With my parents: they were romantically involved until she had a stroke at 81 (collapsed in the kitchen).

A long term physical/emotional relationship.

 

[Moemg]

The calculator told me I would live to 102 and if I drank one less glass of wine I would make 103 but that would be one miserable year .

 

[harley]

I gave it my real weight, which is far from ideal. The rest of my answers probably pushed the age up.

I really don't believe these lifespan calculators anyway. In general I think they undervalue heredity and overvalue behaviors. But I have no data upon which to say that - - just a hunch.

I'm not sure about that. I got 79 as my first answer, then I went back and lied about everything except the heredity part. Lying meaning giving answers that they would use as positives. My whole life has been an experiment in negative longevity. For all that, it only pushed me up to 82. I think they are giving heredity a lot of value.

I just wonder if the desire/libido disappears at some point as part of aging.

Audrey

The reason for the Viagra is for when those 92 year old guys marry the 29 year old Anna Nicoles. They are just trying to get a little of what they are paying for.

 

[ziggy29]

The calculator told me I would live to 102 and if I drank one less glass of wine I would make 103 but that would be one miserable year .

Quote often attributed to Winston Churchill when asked by a woman if it was true that she could live to 100 if she ate right, stopped smoking and drinking: "Yes, madam, but it will feel like 200."

 

[audreyh1]

With my parents: they were romantically involved until she had a stroke at 81 (collapsed in the kitchen).

A long term physical/emotional relationship.

Wow - that's amazing!

Audrey

 

[Rambler]

So I took the test. Looks like I'm gonna live until 85, a little less than I expected. I thought about raising my initial WR a little, since I'd been planning on somewhere in the low 3.x% range. Decided I better check DW's expenctancy, and found that she's gonna live to 102 (we're the same age), so it seems I have to lower my WR instead of raise it...either that or work a couple more years...wait, I'm already doing that....

R

 

[Nords]

I just wonder if the desire/libido disappears at some point as part of aging.

What I REALLY want to know, is that at 92, do you still want it to?

If he's healthy, and can find partner(s), why wouldn't he?

I think a human's most active sexual organ is between their ears. It's quite possible that for some of us it's the only activity between our ears. I've been reading/hearing anecdotal evidence that continuing-care facilities are hotbeds of sexual activity, to the point where social diseases are an issue. So I'm really looking forward to my elder years, even if I'm too demented to remember them...

As for lifespan calculators, I view them as a warning system intended to alert their users of the dangers of outliving their ER portfolios. We pick 120 years as our max and hope to make the top of our alma mater's "eldest living alumni" lists. By then we'll have also received far more pension than we ever got in paychecks, let alone earned.

Those are the considerations that keep us hopping out of bed in the morning... or back into it.

 

[SonnyJim]

USAA longevity calculator says I will live to 87, MSN says I will live to 97 (I now officially like MSN). I plan on retiring at age 48, so that means I will be getting my pension for 39 or 49 years for only working for 20 years. Looks like tricare for life is gonna get a workout with me. Now I will need to eat right, exercise and take geratol every day, but I will be reitred and have a little more free time to do it. Now, only if the US Government will stay solvent and not screw up my plans I could sleep a little easier. Random thoughts over, back to your regularly scheduled program.

Sonny

 

[GoodSense]

Just did the MSN calculator, and I am supposed to live until 102.

Not terribly surprised, since both of my grandfathers died in their 90s (including one at 97), and both of my grandmas are still alive at 90 and 91. Several of my great-grandparents lived until 98 or 99. A little scary actually considering how much more complex elderly guardian issues are compared to 50 years ago. I can't imagine how things will be like in 70 years.

 

[CyclingInvestor]

Although I will probably only last 25-35 more years, I feel I have to plan for the worst case, which would be living forever. This is one reason I adopted a dividend-based strategy for retirement income.

 

[laurence]

I have a pretty solid plan to retire at 55, if not sooner. I have an incomplete picture on heredity, as paternal grandfather died in WWII and maternal died in a bottle (metaphorically) in his 50's when his liver gave up (never met him). My maternal great-grandfather lived into his 90's, and both grandmothers made it to 90. I figure 35 years is a prudent number. I'm more concerned with making sure DW is taken care of as her relatives all make it close to 100 (one great-grandma is close to dying at 99 right now).

 

[ziggy29]

On further reflection, my answer is: Not as many years as I planned for a couple years ago...

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

Hey, Trek,

Based on my situation, that calculator tells me I should only live to 74. Well, I shouldn't have to worry very much about long-term care.

Gypsy

(I should stop calling myself the gypsy. There are guys like you who have run laps around me already. Oh, well.)

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

I always said that I could afford to retire two years after I was dead. Maybe I was right.

 

[megacorp-firee]

I FIREd at 56 and am shooting for 100 ... so I voted 44 years

 

[plex]

50+ years, plan on retiring in my 40s. Men on both sides of my family lived anywhere from their mid 90s to a bit past 100. Except for one, who fell off a ladder three separate times...he wasn't in very good health after that 3rd time, so he only made it as far as his late 80s. Definitely planning on making it to 100 at least.

 

[honobob]

Definitely planning on making it to 100 at least.

What's your ladder plan?

 

[kat]

Every member of my immediate family made it past 90, with the exception of my Dad's father who died as a very young man. So, retiring at 45, I aimed for 95 with my planning, with nothing else riding on it but money planning. I can still hear my mother's father complaining about still being alive, at 90. (He made it to 101.) All his friends were dead, he complained. I'm not sure I see any of it as rosy.