Comment by ta1243
3 days ago
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?
Sure most will have died but the majority will make it to 94.
Most 95 year olds also don’t have dementia.
My point isn’t that getting old doesn’t suck. It’s that you have a good chance of having several years of good quality of life at 90.
>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?
America has socialized healthcare for people over 65, so the government pays for it.