My mom just turned 91, and she is still active and mostly pretty happy. In fact my dad, and my in-laws are all well into their 70s or 80s, and all but 1 are generally healthy and really active.  Things have changed. You might find yourself changing your mind about not wanting to live beyond 73. Or not. Just throwing…

I’ve always said I’m aiming for 68, since one grandfather died at 67 and the other at 69. Everything else is a bonus. That said, 75 or so sounds good to me...enough to (hopefully) enjoy retirement, but not enough to suffer the worst parts of old age.

My parents are both in their early 80s and not slowing down - my mom goes to freakin’ Jazzercise for godsake. I come from a long lived line of folks, but unless they find a cure for chronic, clinical depression (sadly I can’t take the meds), I hope to christ I’m the one who breaks the trend. 60-ish sounds good.

Jane says: “nukular weapons stockpile”.

Agreed. This may be slightly off topic, but does anyone else think he has a rather frightening looking mouth? Like it was stolen from a mummy and sewn onto his face or something? I donno, maybe it’s just me. Wait — is it Fred Perry’s mouth!? Maybe I wasn’t off topic after all!

It wasn’t just TV! I remember the controversy when Marisa Tomei was cast as Peter Parker’s Aunt May. She was considered to be too young for the part, even though she’s 31 years older than Tom Holland, a perfectly ordinary age difference between an aunt an a nephew! People were just used to seeing her portrayed as an…

Ah, I can see your reasoning. Alzheimer’s is not something I would wish on anyone or any family.

It’s easy to say that when you’re not 72 yet. Wait to see what shape you’re in, then decide if life is worth living. I have a terminal illness that causes me literally constant pain to one degree or another. I just turned 40 in March. They told me I wouldn’t see that birthday, much less this coming Christmas. Some…

That’s why I love Grace and Frankie. After I watched season 1 I realized we don’t get any media portrayals of older women living normal life

Wait until you are 72.

Perry Saturn!

I am (GULP for admitting this online, but love you guys so I trust you....) 33 years old. My whole life I romantically imagined myself dying very very young. I am only now realizing that my extremely poor life planning was not just the result of an intelligent, lively, and ambitious teenager finally confronting…

I’m 51. I can’t imagine spending 51 years over the age of 51.

If you look at 1950's-1970's TV, one of the oddities is the portrayal of age, especially in women. Women were “young moms”, maybe even with short skirts and flippy hair, ala Mary Tyler Moore...or they were Aunt Bea on Andy Griffith- probably only 50ish, but almost Victorian “old lady”, with the bunned hair and…

My Great Aunt lived to 105 - retaining a really solid chunk of her mental and physical faculties - only to see her husband, son-in-law, and my Mom (who she considered a daughter-in-law) die inside 18 months of each other about two years before she herself died.

When my Mom died, she said, “Iniquity, I think someone…

I’m a member of the 80 and Out Club. Having seen a bunch of elderly relatives go through debilitating fadeouts, I can see that the machine tends to start running down after that point, assuming you’ve been in pretty good shape up til then. My father played tennis three times a week til he was eighty-two, at which…

I’d like to live as long as my body and mind are functioning. And no matter how old that is, I hope that I still wear red lipstick. She looks pretty fab if that’s a recent pic!

Unrelated to the article: I wish I could get my red lipstick look as awesome as she does it.

“true star of Gone With The Wind”? Please. That was Vivien Leigh’s movie and she OWNED it. Olivia was good as Melanie but Vivien was EVERYTHING and Clark Gable was everything else.

She’s a mealy-mouthed ninny, and I hate her.