What is the perfect age to live to?

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Popped in my head the other day, I heard sometimes when people pass away the reaction is "they were too young" but then you find out the age, and one time it was 60.

What do you think is the best age to pass away at...when you're young and enjoying life....middle aged where you've had time to enjoy life but not become too ill...or is your ambition to live to well over 100!

Thoughts below please

Less then 30 11
40 - 50 years 4
60 - 70 years 15
80 - 90 years 47
100 & over 33
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  • Faceless
    11 years ago | pl

    Ima die at the age of 33. Just like Jesus. And Jesus my friends, was the most powerful wizard to walk the face of the earth. Houdini was a close second.

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    • anti-hero
      11 years ago

      What is that from? I feel I have heard this before.

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      • Faceless
        11 years ago

        Nothing man. Im just mentally ill.

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        • anti-hero
          11 years ago

          Well, it made me laugh. Good job.

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  • SuperBenzid
    11 years ago

    Zero

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  • -Solitude-
    11 years ago

    I wish I was immortal, so I could watch the world and humanity evolve. Eventually I would be able to experience my dream of going to other planets and meeting aliens.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      I'd like to live longer and healthier for things like that to come...but the NHS hasn't evolved very well

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    Current age plus one. Same thing next year. And the next. And the next.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      I'm trying to get in the habbit of saying "<age> years young" rather then " years old"

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        Heh! You know how adding the word teen to a single digit number adds ten to it? Like six plus teen is sixteen? Well, why not just say you're not twenty-eight, you're eighteenteen. :D

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        • [Old Memory]
          11 years ago

          ...so my mums 60 today so would that make her sixteenteenteenteenteenteen?? :)

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          • dappled
            11 years ago

            :O You're putting years on her. That would make her 66. She's more like tenteenteenteenteenteen. Happy birthday to mum, by the way!

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  • HigherDimensionalGeometries
    11 years ago

    Zero.

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  • Otaku
    11 years ago

    I think around 60-70.Because really after that is when you start to become immobile,and unable to do things.What's a life if you can't live it right?

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  • anti-hero
    11 years ago

    Any age. I will still leave a beautiful corpse.

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  • suckonthis9
    11 years ago

    Funny that you don't have 30-40 years in your list, because until recently, the average life expectancy of a human was about 35 years. Only a small percentage of the population lived into old age. The increase in life expectancy was due mainly to the advent of modern medicine. The life expectancy, however, is skewed because infant mortality rates were very high and many females (especially young ones) died due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      I was originally gonna put 20s, 30s 40s individually etc but then thought the list was getting too long :)
      I think modern medicine has evolved a lot...but I'd love one day of you could walk through a scanner and it would tell you EVERYTHING that was wrong with you down to the smallest detail from one scan...but I don't have the brains to come up with such a machine.
      Least were a step closer with MRIs etc...though my MRI on my back wasn't accurate...said I didn't have pinched nerve when my symptoms showed that I did and when they eventually treated me I was left with permanent nerve damage....but life's pretty good for me so I let it go :)

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      • suckonthis9
        11 years ago

        We are closer than you think in innovating such a scanning machine. The VHATC-L2 (in co-operation with others) are able to scan the entire Universe, down to each subatomic particle, after all.

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        • [Old Memory]
          11 years ago

          O i get it...try it out on aliens first before humans? :)

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          • suckonthis9
            11 years ago

            Incorrect, you don't 'get it'.

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            • [Old Memory]
              11 years ago

              using the NHS has its draw backs

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        • Avant-Garde
          11 years ago

          That sounds lovely and very convenient.

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    • anti-hero
      11 years ago

      If you made it past 18ish you would normally live into your 60s.

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  • Ldizzy1234
    11 years ago

    60 is young. I mean, I wouldn't consider 60 old. Thats a little ridiculous. This is 2013, not 1913.

    But anyway, back to your question. It depends on how my health is. Usually I consider 70 kind of young to die in 2013, because I feel like people live these days more into their late 80's to 90's. However, if I'm like 70, and bedridden for some reason, I don't think I'm gonna wanna live.

    I can't decide on an age.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    I don't want to think about death.

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    • anti-hero
      11 years ago

      Why not? You already lost your legs.

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      • Terence_the_viking
        11 years ago

        I was given a sexond chance.

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        • Bobsbitchtits
          11 years ago

          Metal robot legs? A risky surgery but well worth it.

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          • Terence_the_viking
            11 years ago

            not risky when you gots no legs.

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        • anti-hero
          11 years ago

          That is why you married that asian brod and got the metal legs?

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          • Terence_the_viking
            11 years ago

            Yes

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  • purple1498
    10 years ago

    Wish I wasn't ever born in the first place honestly.

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  • TheUltimate
    11 years ago

    I would personally want to die when things have just started to go wrong. (Slow reactions, can't see/hear perfectly, etc.)
    And I HOPE that would be around 70, for me, at least. I wanna be a super human that doesn't change from when they're 30 to when they're 1,000!

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  • ToxicCrayons
    11 years ago

    I want to die in my fifties.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    For as long as I possibly can. I do think it would be nice to be immortal and have eternal youth, but what's the point if all the people you love end up dying around you? That would make things too depressing.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      too true...but I'd hope I'd make new friends along the way...or try grant them eternal youth aswell :)

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    11 years ago

    When girls in their 20's will start to consistently find me too old to date them.

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  • dude_Jones
    11 years ago

    I'll take quality over quantity. Make every decade count.

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago

    99

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  • WasThatAMoth
    11 years ago

    I would like to live a long and healthy life. I am trying to live a healthy one, but it is difficult to break bad habits. I would not like to live so long that I wouldn't be able to do many things like eating by myself.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      I think sometimes it comes down to genetics (and just your lifestyle that affects your chances) I've heard of people smoking heavily and dying of an old age without any problems

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  • iamrite
    11 years ago

    The govt has planned most people die @ 60

    People whom do you serve?

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  • 1000yrVampireKing
    11 years ago

    70!

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    I think id like to die by the time I'm 70. I don't want to be useless. I refuse to rely on others as it is so once I can't be independent anymore, I'll kill myself. I've made this clear to my family.

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  • charli.m
    11 years ago

    It really depends on the quality of life, I think. I don't want to be unaware of my surroundings, or suffering for a prolonged period.

    I think 60 is young to die, though. I guess from about 70-80ish I kind of don't have that reaction so much.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      I always thought 70 was quite young, and once you get to 80 then it'll start to feel old

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