How old are you?

[petros]

There's hill on the prairies?8O

When you can see 20 miles of highway ahead of you, you are going downhill. When you can only see 10 miles ahead, you are going uphill.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

OK lets look at it this way.. My fathers retirement home is full of 80 to 95 year olds.. They are for the most part healthy and alive.. My Nephew lost a baby that was dead on the day it was born. This all true.. What was your point again ??

Age is only the reference date you were born on.. It has no other significance as far as affecting your life in any other way. It doesn't make you better in health or worse.. At 60 years of age you can be in great health or ill health.. You can live 1 extra day or an extra 40 more years..

What you are giving are anecdotes and mean nothing, one must look at statistics. Statistically you are much more likely to die when you are old.

If you are 80 years old, would any insurance company sell you a life insurance policy? They would be out of their minds to do so. If somebody did, the premiums will be sky high. The reason? They expect you to die soon.

If you look at say a million healthy 40 year old and a million healthy 80 year old, how many 80 year olds you think will die before 40 year olds? In 20 years, how many 80 year old will be left? How many 40 year old will be left? It is nonsense to say that “age has no other significance affecting your life any other way.” Statisticians, insurance actuaries disagree with you.

Perhaps and a point could be made for someone with cancer will more likely die sooner then someone without..

The thread is about age, not death..

Yes age is a factor but not the end all and not the point of this thread.. Certainly not the point I was making..

You started discussing death (in response to my passing comment), not me. And age is a very important factor (though obviously not the only factor) as far as death is concerned.

 

[AnnaG]

Impressive. Another hijacking; apparently by someone with an attention span resembling a dog's.

The topic is about how old you are and how old you feel, not insurance companies views on death stats.

 

[The Old Medic]

I am 66 years old, feel more like 40, and i still enjoy life very much.

 

[El Barto]

when you can see 20 miles of highway ahead of you, you are going downhill. When you can only see 10 miles ahead, you are going uphill.

rotflmao

 

[#juan]

What you are giving are anecdotes and mean nothing, one must look at statistics. Statistically you are much more likely to die when you are old.

If you are 80 years old, would any insurance company sell you a life insurance policy? They would be out of their minds to do so. If somebody did, the premiums will be sky high. The reason? They expect you to die soon.
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Most people 80 years old have life insurance they bought fifty years or more earlier. The insurance companies don't raise the premiums on a current policy as you get older.

 

[Cliffy]

I'm as old as the hills and twice as dusty.

 

[AnnaG]

When you can see 20 miles of highway ahead of you, you are going downhill. When you can only see 10 miles ahead, you are going uphill.

And when you can see the curvature of Earth in the distance, you are in southern Saskatchewan.

I am 66 years old, feel more like 40, and i still enjoy life very much.

That's what life is for; enjoying it. YAY, Medic.

 

[petros]

Quoting petros When you can see 20 miles of highway ahead of you, you are going downhill. When you can only see 10 miles ahead, you are going uphill.

And when you can see the curvature of Earth in the distance, you are in southern Saskatchewan. :iconbiggrin:

That is just on the Nicolle Flats. I've yet to meet a BCer who hasn't floored it when travelling the stretch you refer too.

 

[eh1eh]

And when you can see the curvature of Earth in the distance, you are in southern Saskatchewan.

Does that mean you can see your dog run away for 5 days instead of only 3?

 

[petros]

Does that mean you can see your dog run away for 5 days instead of only 3?

Only if it's going uphill.

 

[eh1eh]

My age is 17 x my shoe size minus 122.

My shoe size is 10.

 

[YukonJack]

There was a time when my age (in years) was the same as my waist size (in inches).

Now my age (in years) is the same as my weight (in kilograms).

So, how old am I?

 

[El Barto]

My age is 17 x my shoe size minus 122.

My shoe size is 10.

You old shoe you , happy late birthday BTW :lol:

 

[AnnaG]

Withdrawn.

 

[El Barto]

This is SirJosephPotter using Anna's account. I am chronologically 60 but emotionally and psychologically 4, you right-wing, extremist, religious Conservative acolytes.

You need to be spanked, by me prefferably :lol:

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Most people 80 years old have life insurance they bought fifty years or more earlier. The insurance companies don't raise the premiums on a current policy as you get older.

Well, it is not quite that bad. People do buy life insurance in their 50s and 60s, mainly as an estate planning tool. But the premiums are high, and benefits are paid only after death of both spouses.

 

[Jumeau]

Holy Cow - who thought this gem up????

I'm in my 40's and that's as close as I'm gonna commit to! Bah! Humbug!

 

[AnnaG]

WTF has insurance got to do with the questions, "How old are you?" and "Are you at the age when you were born or at the age what you feel?"

 

[talloola]

I'm 71, don't have a clue what that means, I don't think
any differently than I did at 41, and I still respect 65
yr olds, as my elders, can't seem to bring myself along to
my actual age, I don't look 71, not even 65, so I think
I will just continue doing what I'm doing, seems to be
working.

lol