Experiencing firsthand how difficult an aging alcoholic, quadriplegic, post stroke, narcissistic, demented or simply ‘nothing’s wrong with me, I can drive, I don’t need those meds, I don’t need to go to a nursing facility’ kinda parent surely gives you some insight on what to do, what not to do and how to prepare for our own aging and eventual demise.

How do you plan to age gracefully and what advice do you have for us all?

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    My options are likely to be:

    A) Live 5 years unable to remember my work, with added incontinence.

    B) Go out trying an experimental age reversal treatment - because why not roll the dice one last time?

    C) Not survive to old age due to overwork, burning out my body one semester at a time.

    C is most likely, B is the plan, and A is to be avoided at all costs!

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      7 months ago

      On the topic of B… if we get brain-in-jar technology I’m going to be fucking psyched.