Indeed. I think it does largely depend on how good you are for your age.
I know what you mean. My great-grandmother was 108 when she died so when I hear of people dying in their 70s it doesn't sound all that old to me.
My grandad who died at 98 was in a pub once, when he was about 80ish, I think. There were a group in the pub singing 'When I'm 64' for a guy's birthday, and they approached my grandad because he was smiling and said, 'it will happen to you one day!'. I hope I picked up the fountain of everlasting youth genes from that side of the family!
Depends on wether you are are a man or a woman.
Also where you live. In the press the other week was a report on how men living in the poorest parts of Mersryside died 30 years earlier than men living in Kensington.
This after successive Governments pledging to increase social mobility.,:(
Yes the people in Ken & Chel get an additional 30 more years of state pension, health care and all the associated considerable benefits of being elderly, than the poor sods on those parts of Merseyside etc; yet it's the Merseysiders who get vilified as being the unacceptable and unsustainable financial drain on the state. Not the independently well heeled Notting Hill set.
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Hope you get up again.
Oooohhhh Betty!!!!:o:o
My grandad who died at 98 was in a pub once, when he was about 80ish, I think. There were a group in the pub singing 'When I'm 64' for a guy's birthday, and they approached my grandad because he was smiling and said, 'it will happen to you one day!'. I hope I picked up the fountain of everlasting youth genes from that side of the family!
Yes the people in Ken & Chel get an additional 30 more years of state pension, health care and all the associated considerable benefits of being elderly, than the poor sods on those parts of Merseyside etc; yet it's the Merseysiders who get vilified as being the unacceptable and unsustainable financial drain on the state. Not the independently well heeled Notting Hill set.
Funny old world.