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The secret of a long life?.

I think you're right Shooter1. Cancer is a terrible thing. A friend of my mums' husband recently passed away from cancer at 60. He was fit, didn't smoke or drink and ate healthily. He part owned a chain of Nursing Homes so money/poverty was no issue. Then her (my mums) next door neighbour smoked roll ups and drank everyday. Never exercised and when he did eat it was mostly fried and processed food and he lived to be in his late 80's. So I do think a lot of it is down to luck and good genes.

All the best with the tests must be a tough time for you.
 
NRWJ said:
Quality of life is the important thing. I have an aunt who at 100 was very active now still alive if you can call it at 106 just an empty vessel waiting to die
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My cousin's wife had a grandmother who was 101 and everyday she just wanted to be gone. No quality of life but still had all her marbles. I agree I'd rather have 80 active years with all my faculties than live a really long life and be housebound/bedridden.
 
My take on things. I believe we are born with a pre programed ticking clock and when it's time to go we go . In my family we live until late 70,s healthy eating/ living or a chain smoking, fried food eater or alcoholic it makes no difference. Quality of life is the key. That's why I m buying another motorbike. All the best.
 
Brooksy said:
Genetics play a massive part, plus your mental attitude, in my opinion.
My grandfather was a very calm and self confident man. He lived to 89, which you might say, isn't very, very old. But, consider the fact that he had TB as a kid, nearly starved to death in Burma during the war, caught malaria, then after the war, worked as a club steward for 57 years drinking every night, smoking 60 a day until he had a mild heart attack at 50, and staying up until midnight every night. Fry up for breakfast nearly every day and a bucket of gravy with his tea each evening. My grandmother however, was the same age as him and did the same job albeit 5 nights a week, she died at 65.
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My dad died at 95. Drank daily, smoked and ate bacon and eggs daily, and mum cooked in beef dripping🤣. My brother always put Dads longevity down to being a Japanese Pow for 3 years, taken at the fall of Singapore.
 
Mandalorian said:
My dad died at 95. Drank daily, smoked and ate bacon and eggs daily, and mum cooked in beef dripping🤣. My brother always put Dads longevity down to being a Japanese Pow for 3 years, taken at the fall of Singapore.
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My father was in the RAF and in Singapore when the Japs overran it. He was in Changi. He never talked about it and only found out from mum.
 
I firmly believe that we all have a date metaphorically written down somewhere, and that's when you're going to die and there's c*ck all you can do about it. I've survived a cerebral aneurism, kidney failure and pneumonia because it wasn't my date yet. Maybe my date's tomorrow, maybe it's June 15th 2068. Nobody knows so there's no point worrying about it.
 
Morse said:
My father was in the RAF and in Singapore when the Japs overran it. He was in Changi. He never talked about it and only found out from mum.
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Yes my dad I was in Changi to start. Then moved to what was then Manturia, China now. I visited Changi a few years back, and the Barracks he was stationed at. It is still there but not a barracks now.
 
Morse said:
My father was in the RAF and in Singapore when the Japs overran it. He was in Changi. He never talked about it and only found out from mum.
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Grandad wouldn't tell me much about Burma. He refused his medals when he returned. I had to go to the Fusilier Museum in Bury to find out what he did. He was a Sergeant in the Chindits. He took two Japanese machine gunners prisoner after sneaking up behind them, they were waiting to ambush his platoon. The best bit was, you got a month's leave for taking a Jap alive, but, on the way back to camp a Gurkha slit their throats.
 
Talking of long lives I was out for a walk the other week there and it got quite windy and the rain came on. Found an old dear lying in the street....95 and still had all her faculties about her. She was out posting a letter and must have stumbled or the wind blew her over or something (she had a stick). A few others stopped and we phoned an ambulance. She was sharp as a tac and knew how to work her mobile phone and phoned her niece who said she would meet her up at the hospital. Her niece put a bit on a local Facebook page thanking those that stopped and got her help. Turned out she broke her hip :(. 95 and out posting letters in the wind and rain and still living in her own home. I was amazed and she was so polite and nice. Hope she recovers.
 
Gers32 said:
My Aunt is 93. Had one boyfriend for a week or so and that was enough. Very religious. Hasn't done alcohol or cigarettes.

So that's the answer. No sex, booze or smoking, plenty of religion.
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"So that's the answer. No sex, booze or smoking, plenty of religion."

You might not live forever - but it will feel like it!
 
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