Will You See 100?

nope, nope

In Florida, the fastest growing segment of the population is 85 years old and older!

I haven't yet seen a person over 95 who has the physicial and mental strenght to keep enjoying life.
The important thing is not the quantity of years, but the quality of life.
I'd like to live long, but not to arrive to the point where there is nothing that excites me about life, and I'm left ot wait...
I come from a family with several 100yrs.+ people (all women). I'm a man. I smoke.

With those elements:

No, to the first question.
No, to the second one.

Dietary restriction increases the life span of rats. Unfortunately, the rats are mean...very mean. ( Same Washington Post article)

Yeah right. I can't afford to live to 100!

I'm told there will be no social security for me when I retire as it is. All those taxes I will have paid will be for nothing. And by the time my 401K or IRA's come to fruition, I am sure they will be worth the price of an occasional day-out at MacDonalds sipping cheap coffee and a tasteless muffin, or something swirly in a cup that is supposed to resemble ice-cream!

The average life span of my parents and grandparents was 63. Why should I save for retirement when the odds are against...<urk! ack! gasp! (thud)>

Well, probably we really will all live longer and longer.
And we are getting stronger and stronger, too:
"Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do that."

fbaezer- I have seen a number of people who have lived into their high nineties, with their minds and bodies relatively intact. In fact, my friend just went to a luncheon, honoring one of the women in her bridge group, who just turned 100, has all her marbles, and is still enjoying life.

One the other hand, many people aren't as lucky. My mom is 93, and is quickly slipping mentally. She is very much aware of it. I would never allow myself to get to the point where she is at!

Phoenix, maybe it happens that 95 seems to be the mental turning point in my family. My grandma died at 102. In the last 7-8 years of her life, she gradually went back to the past in her mind. Once, she didn't my father: "You can't be my son: you are a grown-up man and my son is a child"; later she thought the building in front of her apartment was a sugar cane factory she knew when she was young; time after that she started to play "dressing" spoons or pens as if they were dolls or playing that she was sewing her bedsheets; in the end, she was like a baby.

Not in my life time!

Hmmm
I fell apart shortly after high school and regained equilibrium about 5 years ago. I figure I'm good for 120-130 if all goes well. Hope you are all here with me!

Live To See 100
Only if I can still ski, drive, run with my companion animals, and my friends and family were still here. Then, maybe.

I just want to see my grandchildren change the world.....for the better.

Only if I have my health and all my marbles, and am not a burden to my kids.

My grandparents were close to 100 when they died. My mom was 72 and my dad was 75.

I have up cigarettes 13 years ago, so that better count for something:)

Phoenix, what could you do about it?

One thing is for sure, we're all gonna live until we die!

We have people in Massachusetts, who are in their 90s and driving cars.

Zed:

If you live to 120, I wish you well!

Good article in the NYtimes on the increasing number of people living to be 100 and over.

NH: Was my name mentioned in the article?

Don't know how "scientific" this is, but this longevity test IS fun!

Link to Longevity Test