Could I live to be 120?

[scarpsD40]

Well I've made it past 50, and due to a lesson learned from my Dad's poor health some 20 years ago, I've pretty much completed my not too extensive 'bucket list'.
Not that it's everyone's idea of a good night out, but the only item left from the original list was to see the Edinburgh Tattoo and we've booked tickets to the show in Melbourne next March. I thought I would have to save up to fly to Scottland, so nearly - tick.

Now I know many myswag members are more senior to me and lived good and some challenged lives, so this thread is not written with the intent to hurt or offend anyone's stage in life, but I'm thinking could we end up living to 120?
Today I read this article and with the advances of research and technology have to wonder........

The upside, more time to go camping with the myswag crew and could even take up some form of photography

[GeoffA]

..... the Edinburgh Tattoo and we've booked tickets to the show in Melbourne.........

...that would make it the Melbourne Tattoo...

Would be good though.....

[fc_holden]

could we end up living to 120?

The question should why would we want to I've to 120, I know I definitely don't want to especially if the last 57 are anything to go by

[edz]

Reckon I wouldnt mind another 68 yrs added to what Ive already used, provided the mind / body doest go too far out of whack to what it is now ...  Wouldnt think there would be too many around that wouldnt want the chance to live a double life time ..
Its the future world you would get to live in that would be most concerning though ..

[tk421]

Live to 120?   The bureaucrats will just raise the retirement age to 100.

[Rumpig]

After 25 years working in the building industry busting my arse working day in day out manual labour,  if my body feels how it does now at low 40's, then there's no way in the world I'd want to live to 100 let alone 120.

[scarpsD40]

After 25 years working in the building industry busting my arse working day in day out manual labour,  if my body feels how it does now at low 40's, then there's no way in the world I'd want to live to 100 let alone 120.

wonder what your next 4wd would look like. Could be a whole new meaning to camping under the stars.......on Mars.....

[Rumpig]

wonder what your next 4wd would look like. Could be a whole new meaning to camping under the stars.......on Mars.....

think it'll take me until I'm 120 to pay for this fourby 

[xcvator]

Scarps, save ya money, go to Edinburgh , worth every cent I promise you 

[scarpsD40]

Scarps, save ya money, go to Edinburgh , worth every cent I promise you 

well if I live to be 120, I'll have time to do both me thinks;D

[speewa158]

l want to live till about 90ish then get hung for molesting a bus load of bikinied models 

[Troopy_03]

wonder what your next 4wd would look like. Could be a whole new meaning to camping under the stars.......on Mars.....

It'd probably be a flying vehicle, with 4 props instead of 4 wheels... something like a quadcopter.. just don't fly it over other peoples property eh 

[Beachman]

I don’t want to offend anyone with this comment but I keep hearing the government telling us how we are all living longer and need to save more, but my parents, the majority of my parents friends and quite a few people at work all retired in there early to mid-60’s and the majority never made it to 70.

I’m 47 so the way superannuation is going I won’t be able to access my fund until 65-67, so it doesn’t give much time to enjoy retirement.

Mind you my Mother in law has made it to 78, but she is in a high care dementia ward so far from having an enjoyable retirement.

[Barry G]

l want to live till about 90ish then get hung for molesting a bus load of bikinied models 

I reckon MisTree would do some other things to you before hanging you AND then by the ntus!   

[Barry G]

I don’t want to offend anyone with this comment but I keep hearing the government telling us how we are all living longer and need to save more, but my parents, the majority of my parents friends and quite a few people at work all retired in there early to mid-60’s and the majority never made it to 70.

I’m 47 so the way superannuation is going I won’t be able to access my fund until 65-67, so it doesn’t give much time to enjoy retirement.

Mind you my Mother in law has made it to 78, but she is in a high care dementia ward so far from having an enjoyable retirement.

Listening to the care wireless yesterday and the person being interviewed defined 'premature' death as pre-75, so I guess that is the point the majority make it to.  So that is just 8 years on from 67, but will probably stretch to 10 byu the time retirement age is 67.

[tk421]

I don’t want to offend anyone with this comment but I keep hearing the government telling us how we are all living longer and need to save more, but my parents, the majority of my parents friends and quite a few people at work all retired in there early to mid-60’s and the majority never made it to 70.

I’m 47 so the way superannuation is going I won’t be able to access my fund until 65-67, so it doesn’t give much time to enjoy retirement.

Mind you my Mother in law has made it to 78, but she is in a high care dementia ward so far from having an enjoyable retirement.

Its to do with your generation. In Australia, a boy born in 2011–2013 can expect to live to the age of 80.1 years and a girl would be expected to live to 84.3 years compared to 47.2 and 50.8 years, respectively, in 1881–1890. Your parents generation (guessing 1940/50's) would be expected to be 60/65.

[Bird]

but I'm thinking could we end up living to 120

why the hell would you wanna?

[dales133]

Went to the Edinbourgh  tatto in tbe 70s with my parants in auckland.
Theres not many things you remember in your life that rank so highly you remember every detail of like this for an event.
It realy was something special with a realistic background of the castle in tbe background.
I asume its a far more facinating now

[scarpsD40]

Yep, only thing I watch every Boxing Day or New Years Day on tv

[xcvator]

Yep, only thing I watch every Boxing Day or New Years Day on tv

Scarps, do yourself a favour, just "do it " worth every cent 

[Black Diamond]

Easiest way to increase your life span (and pocket) is to get rid of your wife 

[GeoffA]

My parents went to the Tatoo in Edinburgh in the early '80's.
They said you could hear a pin drop......not a sound from the audience.

They wondered if a Melbourne crowd could show the same respect/reverence......

 

[scarpsD40]

My parents went to the Tatoo in Edinburgh in the early '80's.
They said you could hear a pin drop......not a sound from the audience.

They wondered if a Melbourne crowd could show the same respect/reverence......

 

possibly, but when it is time to applaud, cheer and whistle rest assured we'd be louder than the norm;D