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I have an announcement. My 78-year-old brother-in-law that I kept stating was still working has now retired. His mother also just died at 99, just short of 100 years old. My sister has his honey do list loaded and he mentioned he thinks he can have it worked off in about 15 years. They are doing a little traveling and plan to live into their 90's. He said "I'm not done living."
actually some very important things can be bought .
in my wife’s former husbands case he got multiple myeloma…. 20 years ago it was a death sentence .
my wife heard sam walton who had the same cancer was sponsoring an experimental program in arkansas which used all kinds of experimental treatments not covered by insurance .
after meeting with my wife and husband he accepted him .
sam spent over a million dollars on him and gave him more then another year to live beyond what any doctors expected and be with family .
today these treatments are routine thanks to sam .
PRICELESS
???
Multiple myeloma was not a death sentence 20 years ago. It is a highly variable malignancy in terms of aggressiveness, always has been. There have always been (many) long-lived cases of myeloma. even when I was a student >40 years ago. Treatment of all hematologic malignancies has improved in the past 30+ years since 1990, and not even that much for myeloma as for some others. Experimental drugs sometimes pan out as useful, and sometimes don't. Is one more year of life worth $1M? Not to me, not at my age.
And what some people WANT to do is work, in addition to other things, as amazing as you may find that to be.
Nobody finds that particularly amazing :-). We all know that many people WANT to work til the end, without retiring, and that is fine. But we also know that more people DON'T WANT to work til the end, and that is fine too. The only people who seem to be miserable here are those who WANT to work, but aren't employable. There seems to be no good advice to give to those...
Retirement is not a requirement nor does it require a lack of any work.
Perhaps it is a self defined transition in life with its own individual parameter's.
Go forth and find your own path as you age and define your own self!
Retirement is not a requirement nor does it require a lack of any work.
Perhaps it is a self defined transition in life with its own individual parameter's.
Go forth and find your own path as you age and define your own self!
Wishing the best for everybody for a happy and healthful new year. Looking forward to this topic on New Years Eve next year as well.
Thank you, same from me. Hopefully all of us will still be here, but then, this is a retirement forum. Reality... This year seems to have gone by very fast. Heck, the last 63 years seem to have gone by fast :-).
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This year seems to have gone by very fast. Heck, the last 63 years seem to have gone by fast :-).
