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Swizec ◴[] No.45076409[source]
What about quality of life adjusted life years? I don’t want to live to 100 and be miserable for the last 30

But if you can get me 90 years where I feel like a spring chicken until 89, then that’s just fine.

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1. jumploops ◴[] No.45081325[source]
My grandfather had a little saying at each of his birthdays:

88, feeling great!

89, feeling fine

90, less mighty*

91, not yet done!

92, don’t think I’ll hit 102!

He died a couple years later, just a few months after getting my grandmother into an assisted living facility.

*note, I struggle to recall the rhyme for 90, so this one might not be accurate!