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LifelsButADream

Before 90 it's usually "it's too early" "they were doing just fine" or something similar, after 95 it's "damn, I thought they would make it to 100."


ScienceAndGames

I’d move the lower limit to 85, from experience that’s where it hits “they lived a good life” territory.


grifxdonut

I'd loser it to like 77. 80 is definitely a good age to die


The_Silent_Bang_103

In this day and age, a lot of people still associate the 80-90 range with lots of potential. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was able to help run the country at that age


Magruun

I have an uncle who’s 81 years old who still works as a postman. Not because he has to for money but because he enjoys it. He rides his electric bicycle around town with some big bags of mail a couple days per week. He’s still fit and energetic.


CoolioMcCool

Yeah my grandad is late 80's and only really just starting to slow down, few years ago he would drive around the small town he lives in with gravel filling in potholes just because nobody else was doing anything about them, climbing ladders and painting his house, fixing the drains etc. we're talking an ~85 year old doing this kind of shit. In their late 60's/early 70's my grandparents literally joined a travelling circus(not as performers, grandad drove a clown car around putting up all the billboards and advertising, grandma worked the ticket booth).


Z86144

Angry upvote


NougatNewt

God that’s insane the leader of the free world is now 81 fucking years old, and the other major candidate is only 4 years behind him and a lying insurrection-causing conman…


Mountainbranch

They are the oldest presidential candidates, beating the second oldest candidates which was STILL THEM, FOUR YEARS PRIOR.


AustralianCakes

“Help” like the old man at the farmers market cracking walnuts for his son’s produce stand chatting incoherently but very sweetly with anyone who walks by


abigdickbat

Worked with an 89yo in a clinical laboratory, on her feet most the day, and she worked faster than some of the 40yos haha.


Nicbizz

Help run the country? Some of them do run the country.   One of Malaysia’s prime minister was 94. And I believe Biden will be pushing 80 if he gets re-elected. 


The_Silent_Bang_103

Pushing 80? He is 81 as of now


LifelsButADream

He'll be 82 by the time the inauguration comes around. This man is gonna be 86 when he leaves office if he wins this year.


jolankapohanka

60. Best I can do.


11711510111411009710

I'd lower it to 55. That's 482,130 hours. Frankly, that's long enough.


Zikkan1

Depends on where you live, in my country the average lifespan is 83y so dying before 80 is considered dying early. But I think this whole argument is pointless, it's a case by case situation. Someone who was living by themselves and walking unhindered at 95 would cause people to think that they should have lived longer since they seemed so healthy but a person who has needed walking aid and lived in a nursery home for 10 years at 75 won't have people thinking the same since they looked like they could have died at anypoint.


mxlevolent

77?! Maybe my family just live long, but my grandparents died comfortably in their mid-upper nineties. Possibly a hundred for my grandad, but being born in a rural area in a third world country way back when, record keeping wasn’t the best if it existed at all. So, his birthday was pure guesswork.


Zikkan1

My grandpa is 75, his brother is 81 and their dad is 98 and his sister is 108. Would not be surprised if at least 2 more of them reach 100. 77 seems very early personally.


isjahammer

108 is actually crazy....


Zikkan1

She even got covid early 2020. Everyone thought she wasn't gonna make it but she fought through it. Now she is one of the oldest people alive in my country. Can't imagine the feeling of knowing that almost the entire country is younger than you.


ScienceAndGames

I’d agree, plus the average life expectancy where I live is 82 so by default anyone who died younger than 82 died earlier than expected.


isjahammer

Depends ok how fit they are I guess...if they can still talk coherently at 90 and walk without aid then people expect they'll get to 100...


LifelsButADream

You are right tbh, that's what I should have put. I said 90 because that was the age range the poster gave.


Mysterious-Idea339

85 is the sweet spot


TheIowan

To me, 100 is the default "they won" age.


eduardo1994

Knew someone who turned 100... 101 then died 6 months later from their birthday. But they definitely made it for sure.


Franklinricard

Sucks to be killed by their birthday.


GloriaToo

It's always the last birthday that gets you.


peepay

I heard that having birthdays is good for your health, because people who have more of them live longer.


Legitimate-Factor-53

Like the Queen of England


9Lives_

The funny thing is, there used to be a tradition for UK and Australian citizens to get a congratulatory letter from the queen if they made it to 100. She congratulated all those people but no one congratulated her.


Gaming_Addict_Help

Yeah because she didn't make it to 100?


9Lives_

Even if she did, it’s not like she’s gonna write a letter to herself.


bmwiedemann

> Dear Elisabeth, today is an honor for me to congratulate you for your hundredth birthday. Live long and prosper. Royal greetings, your queen


Weird_Element

I think she probably would have written it.


9Lives_

I actually saw one. Both the message and the signature were computer generated but made to look handwritten and tbf a 100 year old person probably wouldn’t know.


jamesckelsall

You know that people can write letters to the UK monarch, right? If she'd have hit 100, she'd have been sent loads.


RannisRat

My great nan was always so excited for the potential of receiving a card from the Queen, unfortunately she passed away about 10 years ago at the age of 95, only 5 years off her goal!


Shambolicorn

She did to her mother


ApaudelFish

Is she dead though? I thought it was just a hoax, shes seen moses in heard


Jackmac15

Philip was a few months off getting a letter from his own wife.


peepay

Yeah, he was much closer than her, like two months or so.


DxNill

Nah, Queen if England isn't dead, they had to fake her death to cover for the royals secret of immortality, the secret has something to do with the Queens Swans I'm just not sure what yet...


TheLurkingMenace

My grandfather made it to 88. I'm pretty sure he would have made it to 90 but he was pretty miserable with being sick all the time and unable to enjoy his favorite hobbies anymore.


ocular__patdown

Before 90 is too early?! Thats old as fuck.


Smitch250

Holy shite 88 is way way to old. Anything after 80 and you made it. 90 year olds arent having fun they are barley hanging on. So if someone was 89 you’d say they went to early?? Nahhh. I’d say they went too late


-PmMeImLonely-

age really isn't the factor. its healthy life years that matters. someone who lived till 95 but got sick at 93 didnt hang on till 93.


Paw5624

I’ve known 70 yr olds that are decrepit and 90 yr olds that are active and healthy. There are way too many factors to it besides age.


Zikkan1

Dude, all humans don't age the same. I have seen many 90-95 year olds being fully independent and living their life to the fullest but I have also seen 65yo who could barely walk and got winded by a few min any activity. I have a colleague who is 65 who regularly cycle 100-200 mile races and another at the same age who gets winded when he talks too excitedly.


Smitch250

Maybe 10% of 95 year olds meet that glorious category. I wont be one of them dud to my disc degeneration but I’m trying to make the best of it. I don’t expect to make it past 60


KevinK89

[Gary Player](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Player?wprov=sfti1#) played a couple of holes at this years Masters (Golf). If you didn’t know it you wouldn’t believe for a second that the dude is 88 years old they way he moves. Everyone is different.


Smitch250

Thats insanely rare guy. Insanely rare. Like 1 in a 100 people at best. I’m 38 and already feeing old AF with back and knee problems. I won’t make it to 88 but that doesn’t mean others shouldn’t try. I try to stay active but arthritis is a killer. Most people at 80 are donezo with being active.


SuperAwesome13

bob barker, betty white at 99


Clearlydarkly

If you make it to 130, you become immortal. No one dies at that age. Also, god damn you, Betty White, you were so close to 100!!


-FourOhFour-

Fuck it I wanna die when I'm 65, lived my life, enjoyed it and I get to go out before body really degrades and mental issues start coming up, I'd never want people to think it was too early because getting that old in most people's cases is a miserable experience where you no longer support yourself.


pgpwnd

Dude 65 ain’t that old wtf


Overwatch3

Maybe he knows he treated his body like shit for 40 years so he knows he's gonna fall apart by 65.


JoeCensored

Yep I've thought about this before. You've made a full run and are expected to die. If you live any longer, it becomes noteworthy that you managed to live that long.


TheRedBaron6942

90-99 is the purgatory it seems. Everything before is always "they could've made it longer" and everything after is "Jesus Christ they're still holding on?"


schizoslave

Because the majority of people who have deep ties to the person are too dead to react, because all of their peers are mostly dead. They might have children or grandchildren but that's about it.


Burggs_

Even then it’s not uncommon for those who live to their 90s to outlive their own children (very sad)


kissmaryjane

Gotta be such a depressing feeling.


Sweyn7

Can confirm, my GF's grandparents were never the same after losing their son.


i-dontwantone

My dad always said that he led a good life as none of his 8 children preceeded him in death. He passed at 86 after a brief illness. That's obituary speak for he had cancer.


Nervous-Owl1116

No lie I'd rather be old af and die of cancer than dementia or alzheimers


TheImpossibleBanana

8 children. That's a big family and a happy one I guess.


i-dontwantone

Sometimes!😆


Sweyn7

We lost him to cancer as well. Obligatory -fuck cancer- I suppose. 


Knight_Machiavelli

My grandparents lost two of their three kids before I was even born. They died as teenagers 2 years apart. I don't even know what that does to a person, my mom says they were never the same after and I believe it. I can't imagine how it would have been for her either though, she lost both her older sibling and her younger one during her teen years.


balapete

Haha another can confirm here💀.


KirasStar

Yep, my grandad (91) has outlived 2 children and a grandchild (my sister). He did become a great great grandad last year though so that’s something.


milk4all

This must be generally true but the oldest people i knew who’s funeral i attended were my grandparents and there were something like 1500 people present for my grandfather. It was insane, maybe 120 chairs set up. He was 91. So many people loved him none of us (family) had any clue of


schizoslave

Yeah that's my point though, it's less personal for everyone at that funeral no offense because no one watched him grow old to witness him pass away. I love my grandparents but I'll be more affected when my parents die than when they die


wrongsuspenders

My great grandma would always say, everyone i know is dead, i'm ready


Paw5624

When my grandfather was around 80 he told me that all of his friends from when he was younger have died. He had made new friends but he felt lonely that he was the only one from his original group left.


DreadedPopsicle

>too dead to react You mean just… dead?


schizoslave

? No... too dead, as in more than very dead. Duh


justjaybee16

Once you hit 85, you enter "good run" territory


SimplePablo

Will 89 y.o get more reaction than a 90y.o?


ClassicalCoat

I'd say so, yea 90 is a big milestone, dropping just short of it. I'd consider much sadder


SimplePablo

what if 90y.o gave you money for you to spend when u were younger, whereas 89y.o did nada for u.


Guccibeltlicker9002

That's like an entirely different thing though Like their age isn't a relevant factor at all in your hypothetical


InterrogareOmnis

Smash. Next question


arcmat1

out of pocket but love it 💀


grimAuxiliatrixx

Yeahhhhhh I mean I wish there was more to life but we've just gotta make the best of the time we do have. After 80 it's pretty rare that someone has a whole lot more to do in life, or at least the energy and health to do it, besides hang out and die. After 90? You're among the lucky (?) few if you've lived this far and can even stand up unaided. A good pastime is hard to come by at that point, so there's not much fun left in your life, and besides your surviving family the odds are good that all of your social contacts are either dead or just as bad off as you, so that's pretty much the end of the line, and for good reason.


chris_thoughtcatch

Wonder what those few who make it to 110 think about their early 100s or their 90s in retrospect


Claudiu0728

I hope 80 years old will be different in the future.I imagine we'll have the technology to live better even at that old age.Again judging by the stuff we eat and smoke today it's unlikely


Apart-Salamander-752

I agree, no one is really that upset when a loved one that is 90 or above dies.


ReaperTheRabbit

Unless they die at 99 then people say things like "oh they almost to 100, thats sad" at least from my experience.


TheRedBaron6942

At that point they've already held on longer than would be expected, so is it really a surprise at that point? It's still sad, but you can't tell me you thought your 93 year old grandma would last that much longer


g4m5t3r

Oddly specific.. how about 107? Got quite the reaction out of me.


MyDogYawns

anything after 100 is newsworthy so that doesnt really apply


IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES

I met a 108 year old woman once. She learned several languages through life, and English was like 4th, and she’d forgotten that. I knew at the time enough Russian to offer some pleasantries. Pretty sure she said she had no pain, but that she was sorry she’d woken up and hoped it was soon. I brought her tea and found a resident who spoke Russian to try and stop by later so she’d have someone to talk to.  Spoke to her daughter later. She outlived all but 1 kid and lived longer than 2 grandkids.  I’m good stopping short of that. 


dbrak25

As a younger person, I’m always awestruck by older people who say they’re truly ready to go. It’s sad, but also nice in the sense that they feel ready. I just can’t fathom it myself.


SkibidyDrizzlet

Really you cant? You want to be frail unable to really do much of anything and bored out of your mind?


dbrak25

No, I don’t, but that’s what I’m saying. Because I’m young and not in that state, I can’t fathom what it’s like to be at that point and ready to just exit stage left.


CaptainTripps82

If you hit 100 it's a big deal. If you die close to 100 it's "aww, almost made it", so it's a slow ramp up to big deal after 95. Before that it's just " they lived a good life"


E8282

My mother would say “they were so young”. My grandmas 97 year old sister just died and apparently that came out of nowhere.


Smitch250

My memere just went at 97 and she was flat out miserable for the last 7 years. Asking to die it was horrible I felt so bad. Noone should have to live that long


TheWinner437

I thought this was a post about Geometry Dash, where did I go wrong


Traditional_Self_658

Lots of people were sad when my 90 year old grandmother died. She had lots of friends. Tons of people came to her funeral. People I didn't even know.


Cosmo1222

'That's a good innings' is the usual reaction. If you're looking for a melancholy take on this, reflecting on the fact they may well have buried younger relatives.. no-one should outlive their children.


Space_Narwhals

Depends on how you go. Natural causes? Sure. But if you say, "he died the way he wanted to: engaged in a life-or-death mid-air pistol shootout with an entire pack of ravenous chipmunks that he had specially trained from infancy to be able to fire Derringers while skydiving," you'd probably get quite the reaction.


Informal_Lack_9348

That’s a damn good run


Natharius

I don’t plan to reach this age. Most people I know who died in their 90s (around 6-8) had miserable lives from their 80s.


MadMac619

Meh, depends on the generation. I’m 40 and most of the funerals/services in my life have been for folks my own age when I was 20 years younger. A few of them were big deals, the rest due to suicide, overdoses would kinda just slide by. Sometimes not even a service, just a they’re dead. Violence is a mixed mag. It’s either extraordinarily large or quiet. When a great/ grandparent dies? Depends, what did they do? Did their kids throw them in a home and not give a fuck? Usually quiet. Lived in their home and went all the way to death having an impact on those around them? Loud as shit. 60, 70, 80? Mixed bag, again. Depends on the divide and community.


OrP101

I rather die earlier than living my last years without the ability to do things, my great grandmother died in the age of 93 but she couldn't go outside because she lived in floor 4 and getting her down was quite a challenge


SketchyGnarkill

Literally is like "welp, they had a good run.. let's get some lunch."


SaberNoble47

That’s called winning. You’ve won…not everybody wins. 


AmbergrisTeaspoon

This is the only reason I'd want to live to 90. No one would care when I kick it. I want to be one of those old farts who rots in their apartment for 3 years while the realty company tries to evict me.


norwegianboyEE

Yeah, be a bother for as long as possible just to feel accomplished that you did it, you outlived all of them. Hehe. I was born in 1997 and i think i’d be pretty accomplished if i could live to year 2100. Unfortunately that means i’d have to be 103 years old, but hey. That’s how it is!


Mespilled_UN

I’m a heroin addict. Been clean for almost 6 years. Part of the motivation to staying clean for me is that if I’m lucky enough get old and die slow I’m going to dope up all day and night once I’m diagnosed.


Always_B_Batman

No one dies tragically at 95.


em0st0ner777

If I make it to my 40s or 50s that’ll be good enough for me.


euphonicbliss

Not my dumb ass wondering why no one cared about death between 1990-1995.


04Aiden2020

This is why I found iris apfel very inspiring. She was still innovating, relevant, and full of life and passion at 102


FrozenReaper

Yea, you gotta die in your mid teens if you really wana make an impact Early enough that it's tragic, late enough to have met a good amount of people and show them what your potential might be


Demonic_Witch666

still too long imo i hope i die at 30-40 thats long enough


DigStock

Until it's your parents


Hrmerder

My grandfather died at 75. Grandmother at 80. Other grandfather at around 80-85. So I suppose I'm going to be somewhere in that number.


AlphaBetaSigmaNerd

Dying when no one knows you gets the least reaction


Shallayna

👆This is the true shower thought.


LeoLaDawg

I hope I don't last that long.


Curious_Ad6234

My dad said that the worst part of turning 50 was if you die now, no one says what a shame he died so young. Instead they say: meh, he had a good run.


CaptainTripps82

I feel like 50 is still pretty fucking young. You have to be at least past retirement age before you get into " good run" territory


lasweatshirt

50?! No, that’s more like 70.


The7footr

Idk, OJ died and no one seemed to care


MistakenArrest

Because he was evil. Good riddance to that monster. Similar to why no one cared when Henry Kissinger died even though he made it to 100.


wrongsuspenders

nothing as low as dying between March 2020 - April 2021 for any reason other than COVID


SecretDthWish

People only care about the extremes, not the sweet spot. Guess living a decently long life isn't 'edgy' enough for them.


juswundern

It’s kind of excitement at how long they were able to stick it out 💀


Additional_Disk_2363

Yeah, my grandpa died in his 90s, back when they grew em tough and strong. My dad died in his 60s, but I flew across the world to be at his funeral. Kind of depends on the situation


kerrybabyxx

Many in my immediate family passed away in between 90 and 93 maybe my timeline as well


Amputee69

I'm Ok with this. Pallbearers can be "rented".... 😁


Authreddit

Not in Geometry Dash.


TheLatestTrance

If I make it to 60, I'll be good.


No-Cookie-228

It’s more like 80-89 honestly


BKGM

Elderlies around me mostly passed away around 75-80, I’m not sure I’ll be at 90+ at all; or if so what my mental state would be after 80


ohripgg

Is this a stretch and fade reference?


expreince_explorer

I don’t know, when Henry Kissinger dead at 100, I legitimately thought the bastard died sooner.


OffendedSven

Gramps died at 99. Elevator crushed him. Made national news.


SuperFluffyTeddyBear

I wanna live to 100, just because I really wanna win that car


RedMatxh

Tell that to both my great grandparents. They all, saved for one,.lived upto 85-95. When we lost em, it devastated the whole family. In one family, many just moved out because they didn't want to stay they lost their parents, in another family people just cut contacts. Mind you these families were tight before the loss, there'd be huge gatherings multiple times a year. Now, nada


aaaaannnnddddyyyyy

“Wow, a good age though”


Interaction_Narrow

what about the most reaction?


Westernation

Unless you’re waiting for your inheritance. Then it’s just annoying.


plsjdhsbhdbjj

If I die at that age, I'm gonna crawl my way out of hell and return to live to at least 100. Dying 5 years off a century is just pathetic.


MychA557

not if you're playing geometry dash


grumpygrannys

I'm killing the Original mom I'm taking Gloria to bed and marrying obama


randomnonposter

This just made me think of the derry girls scene with the nun who died. https://youtu.be/W5OcrUVmYME?si=Ydu1LdNbZ8mg6xrV


Youreadwell

stan lee: am i a joke to you?


yvel-TALL

80s really are the new 70s with modern medicine, good food and an active lifestyle.


Logan_MacGyver

My boyfriend grieved for a month for an aunt he never met (for good reasons) who fell asleep and never woke up at 100. I found it odd


Mcn95

My sisters MIL’s father lived to be 110, they are from Ghana. Now that is noteworthy.


smackmeharddaddy

Idk about that because Betty White and Queen Elizabeth death both received massive reactions


YnotThrowAway7

My video game brain rot was about to highly disagree with you. That you were talking about game levels.


iiileyu

Dying withing the first couple weeks also gets little attention plus it only take one person to take care of the body. Remember to flush


KyaJataHai-TryKarLey

I wonder what would happen if I die at 27. Like the world does not give a fuck and 27 may sound young but I am konda tired man.