If I could stop or even go back to a certain age then maybe I’d want to live to 100. As a person ages you lose your peers and in my opinion that can leave you feeling a bit lonely. Young people are great, but there is something to talking with someone who has experienced some of the same things.

Death doesn’t bother me, as long as I can go without the pain and inability to get around that so many suffer in old age. At 46, it may seem a ways off, but I coded in the E.R. on 4 June. I knew something wasn’t groovy by the way the doctors were talking once I started coming ‘round. It would be nice to achieve some goals and happiness in life before they shovel dirt on me.

to Chris. A sure way to contact one’s contemporaries? Volunteer in the field that interests you. . Books, hospital visiting via the wheel-around trolley. Arts and crafts shared at your local senior center. Its an endless list. Share the shopping gas and shop together. If you’re able, morning walks around the mall. Post a note on your community bulleting board..Stay clear of internet posting-you have to know to whom you’re spilling your personal facts. A.Z.

I don’t think I have a choice, the women in my family live well into their ninties, except my mom who died at 54. Longevity skipped her generation and came to mine. I often joke with my sisters that we should all buy timeshares in the same retirement community in Arizona, seeing that we will be all in our nineties and early hundreds.

liz…you are soooooooo great…with your outlook, im sure that 100 wont be a chore..and then, and then….right now at 61, i feel 21….honestly have never felt better…keep it up, girl!!!