Comment by sarchertech
3 days ago
That’s terrible, but you never know when or if the decline is going to happen, so if you pick an arbitrary cutoff you’ll have killed people who had plenty of good years left.
Many people die suddenly with no decline at all.
It's an interesting thing. Aside from the constant complaints she's being held prisoner she's far happier now than she was 10 years ago, but the person she was no longer exists. How does that factor in to how wishes can be expressed. What is important - the mind or the body?
Your assertion
> If you’ve already made it to 90 with no major issues, you’re expected to make it to 95 and you could make easily live to 100
Doesn't really hold up, either in my anecdote (life) or in data
In the UK 70% of men aged 90 today will die before being 95. Most will die before turning 94. Women have about 40% chance of making it to 95.
Sorry I was a year off for US data.
The expected life span is 4 years not 5 at 90.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
So at 90 most people will have died by 95, and those that don't a significant proportion have severely life limiting health events, both mental and physical (strokes, heart attacks, falls etc)
What happens to 90 year olds in America that need a few weeks in ITU and a couple of months on a warn from a stroke when they can't pay?
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