We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.
We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
We are living longer, and we need to live better.
Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.