76 is not old, or it shouldn't be, dagnabit.

Eh, I don't know. I think it's pretty old.

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't know that the quality of life in the 80s, 90s and beyond is something I want to experience myself.

I am very close to my 93 year old grandmother, and will be very, very sad when she eventually leaves us, but she has been pretty miserable and scared and in general discomfort and pain on a daily basis probably for the last 5-6 years. She wonders why God won't take her.

Obviously this is a very personal and individual situation and I'm only talking from my experience.

All I can think is... Yes, please!

It is a selfish FCM, isn't it?

I don't know. I think it's pretty old.

My father's 73, and he looks great and is still playing a bit of tennis and being generally active mentally and physically, so yeah, albeit quite selfishly, I think 76 is pretty soon to be hopping off the mortal coil. Should his quality of life deteriorate pretty severely in the next three years I don't want to see him suffer, but right now, things aren't looking that badly for him, nor for my other relatives at that age or older.

It got posted on IO9, where some people pointed out it was femme-light, and a number of women were suggested for it. Bones, Sam Carter, Hoshi Sato, Zhaan, Liz Lemon, Laura Roslin, etc.

Oh, good, someone beat me to it.

Check out this video starring Christina Hendricks. [link]

I just watched that. I think, given the video content and song lyrics, that one could argue that it makes a relatively sophisticated metaphor* about the price of fame and the empty promise it holds. Possibly even the lack of control women have in a male and male gaze dominated industry. Maybe CH even identified a bit with her character.

And then one reads the comments and it's all about how hot Hendricks is. Which, yes, but. And one of the articles about it (on PopEater IIRC) calls her a "video vixen." ::sigh::

* music video - low bar

smonster, the comments on that video on IO9 did include a lot of "I'll be in my bunk" (okay, she's incandescent--I'm straight and she makes me think that too), but your very thought was posted too.

My father's 73, and he looks great and is still playing a bit of tennis and being generally active mentally and physically, so yeah, albeit quite selfishly, I think 76 is pretty soon to be hopping off the mortal coil.

Absolutely, it definitely depends on the person or situation.

I don't know that the quality of life in the 80s, 90s and beyond is something I want to experience myself.

I think it varies widely. My living grandparents are in their 80s & 90s and are still very active, socially and physically. My dad's mom & stepdad run a successful book business, my mom's mom writes for her local paper.

At 76, my grandfather was still playing tennis (taught himself to play left-handed after a right shoulder injury when he was 70) and taking us sailing. It would have been a real shock to lose him that young.

Yeah, my 90-year-old grandmother is pretty much All Set at this point, but she was great at 76. Heck, she was pretty good at 86.

My grandfather would still drive out to our farm to help with chores when he was 93. (He died at 94.)

I am very close to my 93 year old grandmother, and will be very, very sad when she eventually leaves us, but she has been pretty miserable and scared and in general discomfort and pain on a daily basis probably for the last 5-6 years. She wonders why God won't take her.

Obviously this is a very personal and individual situation and I'm only talking from my experience.

FWIW my 90-year-old great aunt is sharp as a tack. She's becoming increasingly racist, but she has pretty great quality of life nonetheless. Of course, my grandparents are all long dead.

My mom's side of the family all are rather long-lived, and usually healthy up until they die. When her youngest brother Clarence passed away at 76, it was a real shock to the entire family, since the rest of the twelve siblings (except for the one sister who died at 13) all lived into their 80s or 90s.