Originally Posted by
genec
Based on the last few years experience, I suspect the even later years to be even more "fun."
Try to recall your parents and grandparents and how much of their sundown year conversations were devoted to pain and operations...
So the choice is either stayed numbed by drugs, or die painfully, or go out quickly in a blaze of glory...
Reality bites.
Bah, most of my elders went down with, but not of dementia, as did my wife's. Some of ours became a bit violent (her great aunt and my grandmother were both kicked out of many assisted care homes for beating up the staff).
I hope someone takes me out on a long mountain bike ride from which I don't return if I get to that point.