> As for preferring to die at 70 rather than 90,
>eh, that's probably just how I feel at the moment.
>I have no idea what it's like to be 70, and moreso
>I don't know what *I'll* be like at 70. Three of
>my four grandparents are in their eighties now
>and, generally speaking, in excellent health --
>I'd be fine with that. I just don't want to be
>kicking around for years after I stop being able
>to function well.

Me, I fully intend to live forever. I don't care if it's as a brain in a vat, cut of from the rest of existence with only myself to keep me company. That's pretty much how I live whenever I'm not at work anyway, so it probably wouldn't be much different. ;-)

Anyway, what's the point of getting old if you can't get all crotchety and burdensome to others??

> Finally, the "if Christ came tomorrow" comment
>was truly "if Christ's second coming were
>tomorrow," not "if I got run over by a truck
>tomorrow." I definitely have no wish to die
>prematurely. If something terrible happened,
>well, ok, that's the way life is. But I'm far
>from ready *now*.

Ah. Well that makes more sense than what I was thinking.

-- Dave