Growing Old With Dignity

[Beltzington]

I'm sure many will take offense to this post but it needs to be said. Current medications are keeping folks alive well beyond their expiration date. What is your game plan? Hopefully it is not to expect your children to change your diapers and bath you. Adult heath care is ridiculously expensive and in-spite of your believe you are better than everyone you will likely be enrolled in Medicaid when your meager savings are exhausted. My MIL went through $500K in 8-years. So lets hear it, a heavy rock and a deep lake or you just planning on being a burden on those you claim to love? What irritates me most is believers in divine salvation are the most scared of dying. No one gets out alive, so lets hear it.

 

[grsthegreat]

Im not dignified right now. Why should i expect to be when i知 112 :cool2: I have a real nice nest egg set aside, and im retiring for the most part this year. Ill still tinker with generator service for pleasure, but im shutting down my electrical contracting company. Im keeping my license active just so i can do an occasional gen install or help a friend out if i feel like it. I have no kids, so its up to the wife and I. I don’t need social security to survive. Everything i own is paid off. No bills except food, medical and property/income tax. So far neither of us has medical issues....knock on wood.

 

[shooterdon]

My fiancé is 12 years younger than I. Think young and stay active.

I could vote for Sanders and hope the government takes care of me, but I love my freedom too much.

What will be will be

 

[Doofy]

I will not burden my children or my wife. I've had a great life and will be ready to go when called.

 

[Beltzington]

"Think young and stay active."

So you are going to live forever or die before you become incapable to care for yourself?

These are hard questions and as indicated far to easily dismissed. My FIL fell and was paralyzed at 69 years old, my father is still mobile but unable to care for himself and insistent he will not go into a nursing home. My MIL was been in a nursing home for 10+ years unable to do anything but eat and ****.

Unless you have a few million set aside and don't don't die you will be a ward of the state and you will be grateful for government assistance.

So what are your plans? Go to any nursing home and see the hundreds of people who had the same naive thoughts of it won't happen to me.

 

[drssg]

We can make all the plans we want, but nobody can predict the future. My father and mother were both independent until the final months of life. IME, nursing home care is horrible. Home health care is much better.

I think that sometimes health issues come on gradually, and we’re able to accept things that would have seemed horrible earlier. If I was 18, and I woke up one morning feeling like I do today, I probably would have been suicidal, but I’m pretty happy with my life today.

Life goes by quickly enough. I’m not going to dwell on what difficulties may (or may not) await in my final days.

 

[widefat]

I'm sure many will take offense to this post but it needs to be said. Current medications are keeping folks alive well beyond their expiration date. What is your game plan? Hopefully it is not to expect your children to change your diapers and bath you. Adult heath care is ridiculously expensive and in-spite of your believe you are better than everyone you will likely be enrolled in Medicaid when your meager savings are exhausted. My MIL went through $500K in 8-years. So lets hear it, a heavy rock and a deep lake or you just planning on being a burden on those you claim to love? What irritates me most is believers in divine salvation are the most scared of dying. No one gets out alive, so lets hear it.

I hear you. I think about this from time to time. I don't want to be a burden on my kids; I want them to live their lives without having to worry about me. I certainly don't want them to spend one dime of their money on my needs, and I don't want them to have to spend time caring for me. I also dont want one dime of our estate to go to a nursing home; I want the kids and grandkids to benefit.

Am I going to answer your question about what I am going to do? Nope.

PS - as a believer in divine salvation - I agree with you. If the eternal reward is what scripture says it is. then what in the world is there to be afraid of?

 

[Diggin It]

"Growing Old With Dignity "

Got an ever increasing dose of the first.

Never had none of the second.

It's the 'stopping with dignity' that society needs to grasp. We don't let critters suffer. Why make us suffer?

 

[oosik]

I'm like grsthegreat, Doofy & Diggin it. I've NEVER been dignified and have no plans for being that way in my waning years. At the end - one can only hope for a massive heart attack. Quick & decisive. I plan on living here on the property until the end. I will not go to some planned living facility nor spend my last time in some hospital.

 

[Oldoak]

We can make all the plans we want, but nobody can predict the future. My father and mother were both independent until the final months of life. IME, nursing home care is horrible. Home health care is much better.

I think that sometimes health issues come on gradually, and weæ±*e able to accept things that would have seemed horrible earlier. If I was 18, and I woke up one morning feeling like I do today, I probably would have been suicidal, but I知 pretty happy with my life today.

Life goes by quickly enough. I知 not going to dwell on what difficulties may (or may not) await in my final days.

You got it!

We can only plan and control our our life to a certain extent. Plan all we want, in the end, what we had planned or hoped for is not up to us. Dwelling on it only hastens the end.