Would you really want to live to be 113 years old?

[Gothic Sponge]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/20/oldest.man.dies.ap/index.html

Not to sound morbid, but i don't want to live that long. I'll be happy if i make it to 80. I hope i die in my sleep, and not over a prolonged illness.

[MuseRider]

1. I used to think so

but if we find out that Bush** actually won or really did come close I think I will just be content to hang it up whenever my time comes.

[bowens43]

2. yes

[Fear Itself]

3. Only if I could still get it up.

And also had a hot woman there who I could get it up for.

[sam sarrha]

7. Just heard funny thig... "HELP...!! I got up and I cant get DOWN..!!

[supernova]

4. Why not?

Especially of you can be sentient and enjoy life.

Noting says we HAVE to expire when we're in our 80s or 90s.

[asthmaticeog]

5. Has anyone else noticed

that these extreme longevity folks ALWAYS seem to shuffle off shortly before their next birthday?

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. Well its good to hear that he finally got to see his beloved...

Sox win the series one more time!

[Paranoid_Portlander]

8. World's oldest man now 111.

A German who was just the right age for combat in WW 1 and who survived the Hitler years and WW II. Amazing. Still, you would think that with 3 billion men on the planet, that someone could survive longer. There seems to be a very strict genetic limitation. Same limit for women, a few years older, with the oldest woman around 115 or 116 who is currently alive.

[Kellanved]

9. yes, it is really facinating

That was the the thing I have always found most fascinating about my Great-Grandmother:
She grew up in Imperial Germany,
married a protestant in Berlin (and was thrown out of the catholic church for it)
survived the war in Berlin,
escaped the Soviets,
settled down at the Dutch border,
lived in Ally- occupied territory,
the Federal Republic,
and then unified sovereign Germany.

So she lived in at least four different nations without ever leaving the country, she passed away a year ago, at age 96.