justplainbll
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In your own personal experience with respect to longevity / life expectancy, have you seen an increase in longevity as compared to your ancestors?
W2R, your going to live forever, with a family tree like that. My wifes mom died last year at the age of 92, March, 5, 2011. She lived with us for 8 years, she developed Dementia, then full Alzheimer's. We have a 2 story Colonial Home. We would walk mom upstairs to bed, then at the end, she was wheel chair bound, I would not let her live in a bed room, so I would pull her up, and down the stairs in a wheel chair. Then It was 45min for my wife to clean her and put her diapers on, then off to bed. One day in the morning, she was cleaning mom and she sat on the floor, my wife could not pick her up, she was all of 115lbs. They sat in the bathroom for 9hrs till I got home. At the end She would leave food in her mouth, and not swallow. Lot of times, I would go to bed early, to get up and go to work, a couple of times about 1:30 AM, she would wake me up and say, I fell asleep, we need to get mom upstairs and put her to bed. I get up at 3:00am. This is just a fraction of what it took to take care of mom. I dont regret not one moment. We did hire a care-giver to help out in the end. Hospice, was a great help also.I'm 63. None of my ancestors died before age 63.
In my family tree, longevity seems to be pretty good back several generations (except for my father, who died of cancer at 70). I even had a great grandfather who lived to 104, and others way back who lived to be over 100. Most lived to about 90. My mother lived to 98. In my family I don't really see a trend through the generations one way or the other. So, I voted "no".
Just curious why this is a "public poll"?
Perhaps you will feel differently when you're ~68.My parents outlived their parents.
If I average in all the suicides and drank/smoked/drugged themselves to death... maybe 75.
Don't see the point of anything past ~70.
In your own personal experience with respect to longevity / life expectancy, have you seen an increase in longevity as compared to your ancestors?