Ctb because you don't want to get old

[ImpairedLowlife]

Does anybody else here feel like they would'be ctb at the age of 40 or 50 even if life was good because getting old sucks?

For me I feel like even if I had a good life, I still would ctb at some age (probably between 40 and 50) because getting old is one of the worst things in life.

Your body and even brain gets weaker every day and you just can't do anything about it. Taking medicine every day, vision gets worse and it's unstoppable and only gets worse as time goes.

 

[airboy_a380]

My grandma is 87 and has more energy than me!

 

[BPD Barbie]

I mean, I'm 30 and I take medication every day and my vision is so poor without glasses lol. Getting old used to bother me, I was terrified about turning 30, but it's not so bad. As the old saying goes, you're only as old as you feel.

 

[ImpairedLowlife]

As the old saying goes, you're only as old as you feel.

Unfortunately your health constantly gets worse and you can't deny it.

 

[Lost in a Dream]

I fully understand how you feel about this. Every day when I'm at work, I'm surrounded by coworkers that are in their 50s and are struggling to make it to retirement age (which is 63), but already they are experiencing so many health problems that I don't know how they can keep going. One of them already had to leave because of her health and she has about 5-6 years left before she is old enough to retire. As if that isn't bad enough, my mom died in a hospital bed from cancer a couple of days before she was supposed to retire, so it's like... what the fuck?

I think I would rather live to 35 and give myself my retirement then. I want to spend the next 6 months or so after my 35th birthday going storm chasing and doing all sorts of crazy shit that I haven't been able to do and CTB afterwards. In fact, I'm thinking about setting a date for myself around that time. That gives me about 8 years to plan everything out and have as much fun as possible before the end. I sure as hell don't want to spend the next 30 years working at a job that I hate, only to die of cancer or some other disease before I'm even able to retire. Fuck that!

 

[InevitablePattern91]

I'm 28 and already consider myself too old.

 

[TeenIdle]

For me getting old is scary... You have more resposibilities, you start wrinkling and end up unrecognizeable regarding what you once were when you were young... Ugh fortunately I don't think I'll live past 30 or 25

 

[Lady black]

I´m 34 and that´s really too old for me

 

[InevitablePattern91]

Also, the older you get, more loved people die. First grandparents, then parents, uncles and aunts, then close friends, wife/husband. This terrifies me.

 

[Dima2]

Aah the joke called aging , even when i was in a good state I worried about aging ,
I have no problem with death but deteriorating and losing your health is miserable,
I can live 90 years if my body doesn't change beyond 27 but no you have to suffer ,
Fuck this life.

 

[Emily123]

it is one of my reasons . I look terrible even now and everyday I look older and worse

 

[Superdeterminist]

It's one of the biggest reasons for me. It really is so horrendous, it's almost comical. Even if you live a great life, get very lucky, and make perfect choices, aging will still make sure you get your due share of suffering, shrivelling you into an ugly raisin and making you slowly lose function.

 

[Emily_Numb]

I'm 37 and to be honest, me being a vain bitch, I'm just worried about LOOKING old.

 

[Deleted member 17949]

Would be fine if I was happy tbh

 

[Anthagonos]

Also, the older you get, more loved people die. First grandparents, then parents, uncles and aunts, then close friends, wife/husband. This terrifies me.

Yes! for example I cannot see more my grands. And I am seeing how my mom gets older day after day. She was a very active woman and very beautiful (she was model when she was young). Now I see at her and I almost cannot recognize her: low energy, not as beautiful as some years ago, etc...

I think for that reason I studied medicine and I spent several years reading all the possible information about aging. I have hundreds of books about health and have done some experiments with bioelectromagnetics trying to slow the aging process. I know I'm a little bit crazy. But aging scares me.

I'm 37 and to be honest, me being a vain bitch, I'm just worried about LOOKING old.

If you're 100 and look like when 25 and you have all your loved ones... no problem! I think that would be even better!
The problem is the physical deterioration and loosing your loved ones.

Aah the joke called aging , even when i was in a good state I worried about aging ,
I have no problem with death but deteriorating and losing your health is miserable,
I can live 90 years if my body doesn't change beyond 27 but no you have to suffer ,
Fuck this life.

It would be ok if life would be like in the In Time film. No one get older than 25... people with 100 looks like 25. And people death when they want. That would be awesome. It's hard to see your loved ones going worse physically speaking.

Some years ago I was obssesed with aging process and I read a lot in the russian literature. It seems some people invented devices to reverse aging, but that technology is not publicly available. The theory I ended with is that living beings have like a magnetic field. When that magnetic field loss frequencies, you get older. But you can expose biological entities to that magnetic field and it seems the body can recharge itself!
I have an old book in french language when you see a belorussian inventor exposing an old woman to an electric device and it's awesome to see how wrinkles start dissapearing from the skin, hair getting colour again, etc... the book is from 1920s!

 

[Passersby]

Does anybody else here feel like they would'be ctb at the age of 40 or 50 even if life was good because getting old sucks?

For me I feel like even if I had a good life, I still would ctb at some age (probably between 40 and 50) because getting old is one of the worst things in life.

Your body and even brain gets weaker every day and you just can't do anything about it. Taking medicine every day, vision gets worse and it's unstoppable and only gets worse as time goes.

Hi W3, Ive seriously thought about this since I was young. I used to joke around when I was like 15 or so an felt great and say things lik I couldn't imagine living until 30. I thought i would be dead. Cant say for sure but yes there is possibility that I would have still ctb even if i wasn't in the situation that I'm in. It's hard to say what age but I would guess around 60 maybe. Probably about a 75% chance I still would have left on my own terms. Old age sucks. Everything starts to go appearance, physical,mental, and all of this equals a more sedentary life which I dont have any interest in. Plus like other peeps said your family also dies off and friends as well. This leads to more isolation. Il be damned if I'm going to just sit back and watch this life go like that especially with suffering tremendously now. Sitting in a rest home and looking out the window for yrs is not my cup of meat. Ill leave it at that i guess. So yes I agree totally.

 

[Anthagonos]

Hi W3, Ive seriously thought about this since I was young. I used to joke around when I was like 15 or so an felt great and say things lik I couldn't imagine living until 30. I thought i would be dead. Cant say for sure but yes there is possibility that I would have still ctb even if i wasn't in the situation that I'm in. It's hard to say what age but I would guess around 60 maybe. Probably about a 75% chance I still would have left on my own terms. Old age sucks. Everything starts to go appearance, physical,mental, and all of this equals a more sedentary life which I dont have any interest in. Plus like other peeps said your family also dies off and friends as well. This leads to more isolation. Il be damned if I'm going to just sit back and watch this life go like that especially with suffering tremendously now. Sitting in a rest home and looking out the window for yrs is not my cup of meat. Ill leave it at that i guess. So yes I agree totally.

Sometimes time and health is more important than money itself.
It's curious, but young age is from 0 to 30 and from 30 to 70 is old age. So basically life is about old age :(

 

[Passersby]

Sometimes time and health is more important than money itself.
It's curious, but young age is from 0 to 30 and from 30 to 70 is old age. So basically life is about old age :(

Hi, Yes sir! I agree. The way I see it is there are 3 phases to life.
Phase 1. 0–30
Phase 2. 30–50
Phase 3. 50– death.
Nothing we can do about it. Maybe it's works out maybe it doesn't and you end up here.

 

[Green Destiny]

Getting old is something I don't see any appeal in. Struggling pain just to get out of bed and use the bathroom? Possibly becoming senile and losing sense of self? No thanks that's not for me.

 

[Starseedchip]

I've often thought that no matter what I would die before 50. Aging scares me more than anything. When I was a toddler I visited my grandmother at an assisted living facility and it was horrible. It is one of my most prominent childhood memories because of the strong reaction it provoked. I didn't understand how humans could become that. Losing your quality of life is terrifying. Even if my life magically changed and happiness was possible I'm still checking out the moment I lose my independence with age.

 

[FallingFree]

So many healthy and youthful looking old people exist! You are only as old as you feel.

 

[Anthagonos]

Hi, Yes sir! I agree. The way I see it is there are 3 phases to life.
Phase 1. 0–30
Phase 2. 30–50
Phase 3. 50– death.
Nothing we can do about it. Maybe it's works out maybe it doesn't and you end up here.

So I'm in phase 2 :(

I think there is technology to slow or even reverse aging, but it's impossible to make public that technology because it would be the ruin of all goverments.
People has to die. It's not ok, but it's the reality.
I have seen photos of people that reversed aging after applying the technology.

 

[lifeisbutadream]

So many healthy and youthful looking old people exist! You are only as old as you feel.

Absolutely! You can see here that people can be "old" when they are 14, and people like my ____ are young and sharp and funny at the age of 99 - yes he's 99! Hey don't worry about a stoopid number. You make of it what you will or what cards your dealt, but don't worry about a number. There are enough things to worry about in this world but a number is just a number!

 

[Foreverever]

I've often thought that no matter what I would die before 50. Aging scares me more than anything. When I was a toddler I visited my grandmother at an assisted living facility and it was horrible. It is one of my most prominent childhood memories because of the strong reaction it provoked. I didn't understand how humans could become that. Losing your quality of life is terrifying. Even if my life magically changed and happiness was possible I'm still checking out the moment I lose my independence with age.

Problem is, a lot of people reach that age and all they want is to continue living, regardless of the quality of their life. I've seen it happen many times. My grandmother always said she'd rather die than go into a nursing home, then when the time came she suddenly felt different.

 

[Sinai Silence]

I would hate to grow old, my body and mind feels ancient anyways. I feel I've seen enough of this world anyways lol

Being thrown into a nursing home would be awful, there's one near where I used to live and it looked so depressing.

I love my grandparents to bits but I always wonder how they were able to carry on through so much. Watching my grandmother slowly deteriorate from alzheimer's is awful, it makes me scared of growing up.

 

[Linda]

Does anybody else here feel like they would'be ctb at the age of 40 or 50 even if life was good because getting old sucks?

For me I feel like even if I had a good life, I still would ctb at some age (probably between 40 and 50) because getting old is one of the worst things in life.

Your body and even brain gets weaker every day and you just can't do anything about it. Taking medicine every day, vision gets worse and it's unstoppable and only gets worse as time goes.

I'm 67. My two best decades in life were my 20s and my 50s. My 60s haven't been bad either (though my health is now declining), and I still hope to achieve some more things before I go. You don't ctb just because of what you think the future might be like. You wait until it is certain (or almost certain) that the future is going to offer you very little. I haven't reached that stage yet.

 

[waterbottleman]

Unfortunately your health constantly gets worse and you can't deny it.

Do late bloomers stay younger longer?

Because I'm 29 almost 30 and it's crazy how little my appearance has changed in a decade, I do look older than I did at 20 but at 20 I looked like I was 16 or something. So now that I'm 29 I look like I'm in my early 20s and sometimes even get mistaken for being like 19 by some people who are close to my age.

I've always been perceived by other people a lot younger than I am.

Also my health is no different than when I was 20 besides the fact that I have to watch my weight/diet more closely.

My father looks young for his age and my grandfather had crazy strong genes, did labor work in his 90s which is insane.

 

[maitreya1313]

Turning old really sucks. But wasting my youth hurts even more

 

[Meditation guide]

It all depends on how healthy you are. My aunt lived to be 101 and drove all over the country by herself visiting friends and relatives into her 90s. She wasn't ever sick. She enjoyed her life totally. Being rich helped of course.

Most people start a downhill progression at 65.

 

[mathieu]

I really wanna die young. I know I won't be able to be happy in a wrinkly old body.