Telly
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Johngalt in another post gave an example of the wide age range that he has seen in his local obits.
I've noticed the same thing. Not that I make a habit of it, but if I'm flipping through the section of the newspaper that has the obits, I look at the ages. Sure there are some real old folks, but there is a big spread of ages. And some that are
I thought of John's post as I was using some old newspapers as a dropcloth. A story on one of them caught my eye. Dated Feb. of this year, said Ron Zeigler was dead at age 63. RZ was press sec. during the last years of the Nixon regime. A name that was in the news a lot. Age 63... If he had started S.S. @62, he would have had a year only.
We all know stories of, or know first hand, people who kicked the big bucket right after they retired. A few, just day(s) after official retirement. When I was in my 20's, we all (all the other people in 20's - 30's) thought that just showed that people lost their reason for living when they retired. And retirement was so far away for us, so who cares.
But I have changed. I see that the habits of people, including their work world, can help lead to their early demise. Bummer. Slave away, then kick the bucket. But there can be a bright side if its not too late. I am in much better health NOW, than when I was working. The stress, long hours, and more stress, was eating me up. No time for exercise. If I wanted any time for something I wanted to do, it had to come out of sleep time, or had to be hurried. More stress. But I'm in much much better shape now!
So what am I getting at? I don't know, maybe that we may have less time than we think. Not to go overboard and do something foolish, but I am surprised at the number of people that die "before their time".
I'm sure that is helping the Social Security Trust Fund
Yes Ted, I know Actuarials already have worked that into it
I've noticed the same thing. Not that I make a habit of it, but if I'm flipping through the section of the newspaper that has the obits, I look at the ages. Sure there are some real old folks, but there is a big spread of ages. And some that are
I thought of John's post as I was using some old newspapers as a dropcloth. A story on one of them caught my eye. Dated Feb. of this year, said Ron Zeigler was dead at age 63. RZ was press sec. during the last years of the Nixon regime. A name that was in the news a lot. Age 63... If he had started S.S. @62, he would have had a year only.
We all know stories of, or know first hand, people who kicked the big bucket right after they retired. A few, just day(s) after official retirement. When I was in my 20's, we all (all the other people in 20's - 30's) thought that just showed that people lost their reason for living when they retired. And retirement was so far away for us, so who cares.
But I have changed. I see that the habits of people, including their work world, can help lead to their early demise. Bummer. Slave away, then kick the bucket. But there can be a bright side if its not too late. I am in much better health NOW, than when I was working. The stress, long hours, and more stress, was eating me up. No time for exercise. If I wanted any time for something I wanted to do, it had to come out of sleep time, or had to be hurried. More stress. But I'm in much much better shape now!
So what am I getting at? I don't know, maybe that we may have less time than we think. Not to go overboard and do something foolish, but I am surprised at the number of people that die "before their time".
I'm sure that is helping the Social Security Trust Fund
Yes Ted, I know Actuarials already have worked that into it