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By the time it comes naturally, around 80 y/o 90 tops it would be a relief...you'd be so tired after a lifetime of fighting and you'd be such a second class citizen and excluded from all the fun and the social relevance that you'd be looking forward to checking out.

People who worry about death due to old age in their future are always the type who live in such luxury or are at their apex , having exhausted all other worries (and also wrongly project that they'll be in that frame of mind 50 or 60 years down the road).

> Including you

I have no interest in just existing, I want to thrive. Considering that pragmatically speaking it's not possible to thrive at 90, I have no interest in watching other people thrive, so checking out seems like a natural way of solving the issue.

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> By the time it comes naturally, around 80 y/o 90 tops it would be a relief...you'd be so tired after a lifetime of fighting and you'd be such a second class citizen and excluded from all the fun and the social relevance that you'd be looking forward to checking out.

Does not match reality. Where are the waves of senior suicides?

> Where are the waves of senior suicides?

Where is their enthusiasm for life?

Of course survival instinct does its job very well. It even prevents people who are in extreme pain from committing the extreme act, but nonetheless it's not really that people look forward to stuff at 90.

And why would you? If you are not completely gone mentally, you can observe yourself losing relevance by the minute, younger guns attacking you and filling the void.

But curing aging / death would obviously make it so that you _can_ thrive at 90. Besides, most people I know who are in that age bracket are quite happy.

>People who worry about death due to old age in their future are always the type who live in such luxury or are at their apex

Not in my experience. I think people in general prefer existing over not existing, no matter what age.

> Not in my experience. I think people in general prefer existing over not existing, no matter what age.

Existing sucks, you want to thrive, meaning having fun, novelty, winning, and generally being a boss.

When you are old you simply don't thrive, you don't have fun, all the novelty is gone, you lose all the times, you lose your swagger because you become extremely risk averse both in your behavior in the natural environment as well as social behavior when around other people.

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