Some people may find this topic morbid and I am sorry about that. Just log on to another thread. Back in March my sister turned 57 and on that day she nearly died and was put into a drug induced coma which lasted nearly a month. She is in amazingly good health now considering she is diabetic and has many other health problems. I think that scare may have actually lengthened her life. She managed to live through it and finally come to terms with what she needed to do to stay healthy.

Meanwhile, this year I turned 50. When I thought that my sister might not make it one of the things that went through my head was "I will finally feel O.K. getting the hell out of this town". I knew there was so many things I wanted to do before I died and yet I did not want to leave and take away my daughter from my sister and visa versa.

As things turned out I left and left my sister behind with my daughter. I have this feeling that basically I have 20 years maybe to live. I will be 70 in 7277 days and I don't want to let them slip by as unconciously as I have the past 20, from age 30 to 50.

So how long do you think you'll be around? Do you have a bucket list? Do you like me get creeped out thinking that eventually you will run out of tomorrows and never even begin to really live your life?

About 35 to 40 years.

I've reached a spiritual point in my life though where I no longer see it as one life, but a process in the long progression of lives (and personalities---I don't even believe personalities are fixed. Mine will change over this lifetime and the course of future ones).

Ergo, I don't feel too attached to the idea of a long life , etc. anymore.

imago said:

About 35 to 40 years.

I've reached a spiritual point in my life though where I no longer see it as one life, but a process in the long progression of lives (and personalities---I don't even believe personalities are fixed. Mine will change over this lifetime and the course of future ones).

Ergo, I don't feel too attached to the idea of a long life , etc. anymore.

Do you feel as if "what i don't finish doing in this lifetime I will get other lifetimes to complete"? Do you think we all have work to do in this lifetime that is specific to us?

Barring a personal calamity (accident or catastrophic illness), I probably have another 40 to 50 years.

Three of my four grandparents lived to be 90. (One of my grandmas is still living - she'll be 95 in November.) My dad is 79 and my mom will be 75 in November. Even with Parkinson's disease, my mom is very vital and alive. Her disease is controlled well with medication and she still sews and plays golf, as she always has. My dad is very youthful and healthy for his age.

As I said, barring an accident, I'll be around a good, long time.

My family tends to live pretty long lives and I’m healthier than most. Of course, you never know. If I die tomorrow, I’ll die happy and satisfied with what I’ve got, what I’ve done and the life I’ve lead. My own death doesn’t scare me, but losing loved ones does.

No bucket list, really. I have a handful of things I’d like to see or do, of course, but I make my plans and I do them.

Genesia said:

Barring a personal calamity (accident or catastrophic illness), I probably have another 40 to 50 years.

Three of my four grandparents lived to be 90. (One of my grandmas is still living - she'll be 95 in November.) My dad is 79 and my mom will be 75 in November. Even with Parkinson's disease, my mom is very vital and alive. Her disease is controlled well with medication and she still sews and plays golf, as she always has. My dad is very youthful and healthy for his age.

As I said, barring an accident, I'll be around a good, long time.

I have a mixture. My father was a chain smoking drunk and he still made it to a week before his 78th birthday. My mother was 76 when she got struck by a truck in a cross walk in front of her church. She pretty much died instantly, but was revived and then we just took her off of life support. Anyway his family had a ton of very old people in it and hers did not. The church factor made me believe it was "her time". She took very good care of herself and feared becoming helpless; I think it was probably the best way for her to go, instantly.

Anyway, I have 20 last years to accomplish anything. Unless I have the stamina of Betty White the 20 after that will most likely not be productive should I actually have more than 20. I am someone with a great deal of regrets and I don't want to add 20 more years of regrets to my already staggering list.

It how i die, im most concerned with...

long and painful in the natural would be fun, but spiritually, hayle no....

quick and fun naturally, but spiritually...that may be best......

horrifically either way is sudden and permananent.....oh gawd why are discussin that dead???

do you understand??..lol

marriage, death, there are some milestones in life i just dont wanna face, i'm just tryin to get thru this thing we call....life....

Deadflow3r said:

imago said:

About 35 to 40 years.

I've reached a spiritual point in my life though where I no longer see it as one life, but a process in the long progression of lives (and personalities---I don't even believe personalities are fixed. Mine will change over this lifetime and the course of future ones).

Ergo, I don't feel too attached to the idea of a long life , etc. anymore.

Do you feel as if "what i don't finish doing in this lifetime I will get other lifetimes to complete"? Do you think we all have work to do in this lifetime that is specific to us?

unfortunately, no, I do not think that.

There is no guarantee that I will be reborn in a future lifetime to conditions suited for spiritual growth. I may actually digress or become more evil, etc.

The urgency to obtain enlightenment in this lifetime is very real--future lifetimes are no remedy for unobtained dreams or spritual levels. How could they be. All the things that are conditioned in this lifetime (memories as the result of neural connections in the brain, intelligence as the result of learning, etc.) die with the person who possessed them (because he never truly posessed them), only to be rebuilt in a future life.

It's sort of like evolution...there is no master plan that produces a smart being--it's the result of random adaptations. All creatures are not born to just become smarter and more cunning--they merely adapt to environments, whatever they may be.

Anyways, I know this is not a spriitual thread so I'll shut up.

Number23 said:

Not too long, hopefully. I'm pretty much done. I'm fairly zen about it. I'm not miserable, just bored with myself - and a natural streak of misanthropy has fed well becoming cancerous to my ability to judge and enjoy company. I see conceit in everyone. I see delusion in everyone. I see a virus in the dark. I think a lot of people go when they feel it's time. The body knows. I don't want to see my parents die either. Fuck that horror.

No homo (although I'm on FreakerFantastic's pink list, which makes me unbelievably gay), but I love you.

I'm quite convinced I'll die quite soon. I'm not ill and live quite healithily for the most part. I'm just too keen on finding out what dying is like and what happens afterwards. Sometimes, I'm also terribly bored of people around me and life in general, although my life is probably anything but boring. I just feel that I wouldn't care if I died.

I feel it most when I drive my motorbike through the hills and vinyard-roads. I drive so quickly it's really dangerous and I know, still I don't care. I wouldn't harm other people, though.

I often play with the thought of it all, because I find it really exciting.

Plus, heroes die young, don't they?

Dave1992 said:

Number23 said:

Dave1992 said:

No homo (although I'm on FreakerFantastic's pink list, which makes me unbelievably gay), but I love you.

No you dont. You're only projecting conceptulaised notions of your own personality onto a highly distorted and mirrored version of yourself as 'me'. But thank you, the sentiment was very sweet. X

Yes, that too. But I mean I really love you. I'd send you roses and shit, buy you dinner, tell you how much I love your fluffy hair (and wouldn't mention how it's thinning) and take you for a walk on the pier in Blackpool. Now if that isn't love, tell me what is!

Well...I consider 80 to be the age where you really start breaking down physically and mentally. When you become so fragile that you can no longer really "live".

So I'm halfway there. Another 40 years.

Dave1992 said:

I always have this frightening sucpicion I will never walk or dance again because I will get hit by a car. Many times I have almost been hit physically alone or in a car...

My mom and dad are stil here...and so is my grandmother and grandfather..who are pushing 80.

I am going to base this on about a span of 30 years..if I am still here by 60 I will be really suprised.

OH, and if it was time for me to pass I would be happy for how I helped others. I wouldnt want to do my life again. If I did want to live another life I would not come back to Earth that's for sure.

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I'd say another 30 to 40 years. But I agree with myfavorite, it's the how that concerns me the most.

Im ready 2 go...........................Eye welcome death cant wait 2 go!!!!!....If there was a button eye could press 2 end it id press it in a heartbeat.....Death xcites me:excited:

God knows. I tend not to think about these kind of things.

50+ years

Number23 said:

Not too long, hopefully. I'm pretty much done. I'm fairly zen about it. I'm not miserable, just bored with myself - and a natural streak of misanthropy has fed well becoming cancerous to my ability to judge and enjoy company. I see conceit in everyone. I see delusion in everyone. I see a virus in the dark. I think a lot of people go when they feel it's time. The body knows. I don't want to see my parents die either. Fuck that horror.

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Me and my cat are going to live forever.

Thousands of years couldn't be enough

i don't think any one of us can know the answer.

JuliePurplehead said:

Me and my cat are going to live forever.

That was the plan b4 Eve f**ked up.....

davetherave6767 said:

JuliePurplehead said:

Me and my cat are going to live forever.

That was the plan b4 Eve f**ked up.....

what did u do to Morris Day???????????????????????

FuzzyWitch said:

davetherave6767 said:

That was the plan b4 Eve f**ked up.....

what did u do to Morris Day???????????????????????

Morris Day is doing fine and talking 2 me right...

davetherave6767 said:

FuzzyWitch said:

what did u do to Morris Day???????????????????????

Morris Day is doing fine and talking 2 me right...

i 4got he has 9 lives :phew:

i won't see 40 and who would want to?