Discussion Getting old is becoming my new fear

[WallTermite]

I'm 26, but all of a sudden some days ago, getting old has become my new fear.

Yes, if I get old, I'm closer to ctb, but I as I also start feeling like things aren't worth doing anymore since I have wasted so many years of my prime. I feel like I did prison time since I became 20.

This is a very stupid concerm because there are people in their 40's still looking gret and working out and leqrning new things, but I just can't stop feeling like trash.

Also, I'm not trying to make anyone feel bad about their age, it's just something that hit me suddenly. I wasn't like this a few weeks ago. Might be side effects of depression?

 

[idontknowwhatiam]

Probably, yes. I didn't really feel old until I hit 60 last month. You have a lot of life ahead of you.

 

[Suicidalastronaut]

I do tech support and most of my calls are elderly people. There's no way in hell that I will allow myself to grow old. The cognitive decline is so awful.

 

[badatparties]

Lot's of men die in their 20's and aren't buried till old age.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I'm 60 and I dread the idea of becoming incapacitated by some means like having a heart attack or stroke, even dementia, getting a disease such as cancer, having no one to help me, needing to have my ass wiped and be spoon fed. No way, not for me. One of the reasons I'm getting out while I still can.

 

[idontknowwhatiam]

I'm 60 and I dread the idea of becoming incapacitated by some means like having a heart attack or stroke, even dementia, getting a disease such as cancer, having no one to help me, needing to have my ass wiped and be spoon fed. No way, not for me. One of the reasons I'm getting out while I still can.

Same! I'm 60 as well

 

[2muchpain2]

I'm 60 and I dread the idea of becoming incapacitated by some means like having a heart attack or stroke, even dementia, getting a disease such as cancer, having no one to help me, needing to have my ass wiped and be spoon fed. No way, not for me. One of the reasons I'm getting out while I still can.

honestly, one of my biggest reasons for wanting to ctb. I want to have control over my life and when it ends. I would love to die in an accident or something, but aside from that, I refuse to die from a disease. i hope that doesn't sound distasteful, but I just am not the type of person to be ok with that and therefore, would not allow that to happen to me.

 

[UnoX48]

Honnêtement, c'est l'une des principales raisons pour lesquelles je souhaite mourir. Je veux avoir le contrôle de ma vie et de sa fin. J'aimerais mourir dans un accident ou quelque chose du genre, mais à part ça, je refuse de mourir d'une maladie. J'espère que ça ne paraît pas déplacé, mais je ne suis tout simplement pas du genre à accepter ça et, par conséquent, je ne permettrai pas que cela m'arrive.

I'm 40 years old and I've been chronically ill since I was 29. You're right not to accept the illness. Do what's necessary if it happens because this isn't living.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I would love to die in an accident or something, but aside from that, I refuse to die from a disease. i hope that doesn't sound distasteful,

I'd prefer to die in my sleep and be completely aloof as to when it would happen. Not distasteful at all, least not from my perspective.

 

[aRose]

My grandmother spent years in a chair waiting to die. She'd always say "getting old isn't for sissies"
I agree with her. And I'm a sissy. Oh well!