What's the point in living past 50 or 60?

[smallcheese]

I don't think it matters what age you are when you think life isn't worth living anymore. If you've ever watched one of my favorite movies, "The Shawshank Redemption", you might remember the lines: "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things". When a person loses all hope in life, that's when he might give up on life. But as the most famous line from the movie says "Get busy living or get busy dying". Right now, I'm still getting busy living in my fifth decade.

[Repatriate]

Here is another one as a awesome looking bangable milf at the age of 42

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20 years later
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That looks like menopause to me. Women usually really fall apart right after. She did keep it together for a long time though.

[ladislav]

If the only passions and values that give sole meaning to your life are physical good looks, active, prolonged sex and dating young ladies, and then, really active sports, in that case, well, I guess 50-60 is the cut off line for 'most' people.

If you have other interests that give equal or greater meaning to your life such as art, music, writing, travel for culture and discovery, religion, philanthropy/politics, business/money as well as a family that you are already raising, be it real one, or foster one, then you have plenty to live for well into your 100s.

[Rock]

After 50 or 60 your penis naturally stops functioning properly. Impotency sets in for most men. You can supplement this with viagra but this leads to the next problem...

Most women are not attracted to 50 or 60 year old men. Let's be honest most women from poorer countries want the economic stability and provider male role in their life. They couldn't care less about your wrinkly sausage or mummy like shriveled body.

You no longer have value in whatever occupation you were in. It's too late to start some new occupation in most cases unless you're a venture capitalist or a brilliant innovator of some sort. Even then there will be lines of young men waiting to take credit for your achievements.

Your body starts to deteriorate rapidly. Most 50-60 year olds i've seen dodder about or are suffering from arthritis, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and or more serious things like cancer.

If you've been married sex is no longer fulfilling your wife is most likely a wrinkled hag and probably worse if you married a white American woman.

Most senior citizens i've seen traveling at this age seem to be spending their retirement funds and giving the standard hand wave to the world before they go back to their respective corners of the world to die ignoble deaths.

You can't enjoy food or engage in adventure activities like you used to if at all.

IMO, there's no point in living past 50-60. Hunter S. Thompson understood that and so did many other great men. You have to know when to hold them or fold them.

Think physical vs. spiritual. Our bodies rot away in older age. But the body is just a temporary vessel for the soul. I think the key to contentment in older age is to move focus from physical enjoyments of life to spiritual development. I know that may be incomprehensible to many, but haven't you ever met a much older person who seemed genuinely happy and at peace with life? What do you suppose their secret is? The world if full of miserable young people, some of whom have looks, money, the works. Happiness and contentment are what make you blessed in life. So perhaps there's a lot more to that than the means to be in union with a beautiful woman or live a hedonistic lifestyle. I suppose a lot depends on what you open yourself to believe about what's beyond this short life on earth.

[Jeremy]

Most young American guys can't get decent looking young girls without paying and are too poor to move to move to Eastern Europe, so what exactly is lost by aging? Will hookers suddenly stop serving you or give you worse service? Will your cock stop working? Will brain plasticity make sex less enjoyable? I don't get it.

[Rock]

Most young American guys can't get decent looking young girls without paying and are too poor to move to move to Eastern Europe, so what exactly is lost by aging? Will hookers suddenly stop serving you or give you worse service? Will your cock stop working? Will brain plasticity make sex less enjoyable? I don't get it.

Youth is an opportunity wasted on the young, so many of whom squander it away and others who due to circumstances largely beyond their control (stuck in Anglosphere, etc.), do not get anything close to maximum benefit from it.

As an older person who has taken good care of himself and is lucky enough not to have genetically inherited health problems, one who perhaps practices good exercise and eating habits plus some positive spirit building may not be missing much relative to so many young guys today. If he feels ok physically and does not have unmet sexual desires (kinda like before puberty), the biggest difference is that he will probably escape the world much earlier and that might be a good thing, who knows.

[Banano]

Most young American guys can't get decent looking young girls without paying and are too poor to move to move to Eastern Europe, so what exactly is lost by aging? Will hookers suddenly stop serving you or give you worse service? Will your cock stop working? Will brain plasticity make sex less enjoyable? I don't get it.

Very good point, if you are undesirable at 25 and cant get any how much worse can it get??

In fact aging comes as blessing for such guys(80% of men) as with age your libido and desire for women goes down

Hookers don't mind and Filipinas prefer old men

[Teal Lantern]

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[Halwick]

If your whole life focuses on participating in sports activities and hedonism and by the time you reach 50 or 60 realize you can't function as well as you use to, then yes, you may as well make an exit, if that's your choice and destiny.

Many people who accept the degradation in their physical abilities as normal evolution can make adjustments and compensate and pursue new interests and avocations. That's called reinventing yourself. These people continue to live happy, productive and purposeful lives well into their 80s.

[Raffie]

You get to retire!!
Fixed money coming in every month, discounts on all sorts of things, stay up late as you like or sleep in.

You can drive uber slow to piss everyone off because you do not have to be any where and they do. MUAHAHAHAHA.. good times....

Lots of fun can be hand....

[Contrarian Expatriate]

For many men, that age means doing what you want, when and how you want.

Some people people like being grandparents, but others like being world travelers and making new relationships all the time.

The stress and headaches of the 20s and 30s can be nonexistent if you play your cards smartly in your 50s and beyond.

[ladislav]

I am 59 and will soon be 60. You are right that it is not the same as being 30+ or 40+. But when you get to this age, you will realize that it is not old in this day and age. It may be old for some other nationalities, but it is not old for a Westerner.
And then, it all depends on the way you look and feel. I am not feeling even 10 percent of what you described. But even if I did, there are other things one can devote life to.
At this point, I also find happiness in travel, languages, cultures, study of religion, writing and working for others. Not everything centers around p... alone. My mother is 85 and she does a lot of art. She is very happy with her life. I do a lot of philanthropy work and also help raise a fatherless child. I have wealth of experience in life and can help others. This makes my days full.
But let's suppose there is no sense living past 60. What do you suggest? Suicide? What about all those people I will leave behind and my plans to pursue art and writing? Artists and writers do not retire, you know that, right?
If all your life centers around chasing young chicks and banging them, then, becoming 50 or 60 may prove to be painful. But what if this is not the only thing to live for?

[Shemp]

For me, life was mostly unpleasant until about 40, which was when I finally got rid of the last remnants of my business, and began living the life of aristocratic idleness that I believe I deserve. Before that, it was study, study, studty, then work, work, work, spiced with occasional girlfriends. My first decade of bumming around I was just learning the ropes of my new life of leisure and so often made mistakes that resulted in reduced happiness. Life didn't really get consistently good for me until about age 50 (I'm 59 currently). So OP's question is absurd to me. I expect my 60's and 70's to also be very enjoyable. Not sure after that, since my health might decline after 80. Maybe rephrase the question: "'what's the point of living if you have bad health?"

[MrMan]

After 50 or 60 your penis naturally stops functioning properly. Impotency sets in for most men. You can supplement this with viagra but this leads to the next problem...

Most women are not attracted to 50 or 60 year old men. Let's be honest most women from poorer countries want the economic stability and provider male role in their life. They couldn't care less about your wrinkly sausage or mummy like shriveled body.

You no longer have value in whatever occupation you were in. It's too late to start some new occupation in most cases unless you're a venture capitalist or a brilliant innovator of some sort. Even then there will be lines of young men waiting to take credit for your achievements.

Your body starts to deteriorate rapidly. Most 50-60 year olds i've seen dodder about or are suffering from arthritis, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and or more serious things like cancer.

If you've been married sex is no longer fulfilling your wife is most likely a wrinkled hag and probably worse if you married a white American woman.

Most senior citizens i've seen traveling at this age seem to be spending their retirement funds and giving the standard hand wave to the world before they go back to their respective corners of the world to die ignoble deaths.

You can't enjoy food or engage in adventure activities like you used to if at all.

IMO, there's no point in living past 50-60. Hunter S. Thompson understood that and so did many other great men. You have to know when to hold them or fold them.

This is an old post that has been revived. The central underlying theme seems to be that sex is the ultimate goal of life. I enjoy sex, of course, but I disagree with this assumption. A man in a wheelchair who doesn't feel below the waist can still have a fulfilling life. I'm glad that hasn't happened to me, and wouldn't wish it on anyone. But if sex is gone or not as good as it was at 20, that doesn't mean life isn't worth living.

My philosophy is that we are to live here to please God, and that we are to do His will and do good to other people. There are a lot of good things you can contribute to the lives of other people around you when you are older. If you have children and grandchildren, you can encourage, teach, and help them. You can help people worse off than yourself financially and in many other ways. If life is just about sex-- stuff gets less sensitive and doesn't work as well in old age, and your wife who was young when you married her will age as you do.

This philosophy reminds me of that 19-year-old in California several years ago who had never had sex, so he made a video complaining about it and went to the mall and shot people up and died. If sex is the sole purpose of life and you feel like you can't have it, that's a pretty big tragedy. But that's a terrible way to view the world. It also leads to really bad decisions-- having sex with any sexy woman you can. There are a lot of men who would do that, getting a pretty woman pregnant who can extract wealth from him to raise a child he has little influence over, cheating on their wives, contracting diseases, etc. It's no way to live. Sex is great, but it must be in it's proper place, in marriage. And it is not the end-all be all.

[suprmon]

I'm not suggesting anyone should top themselves. I think the choice whether to live or not is solely your own. Since as the individual you are the one who derives actual value from whatever existence you have. I'm just putting out some bullet points on why I think it's pointless to live past 60 or so. Now that I think about it checking out in your 50's is a bit too premature so we'll just say 60+.

Honestly, this may sound dramatic or emo or whatever but if I don't have some kind of family or a really good reason to keep ticking after 60 i'll likely do the Hunter S. Thompson thing. That gives me a few more decades of fun before I re-evaluate my stay at the mortal amusement park.

I have relatives that are in their 80's so i'm pretty sure long life is in my genetics. The Chinese have it all backwards as usual though. Long life is a curse and not a benefit. It's a curse for society as well because they have to take care of your old ass eventually.

Well Repatriate, nobody is asking your young a$$ to take care of anybody!! I'm sure glad there are people in this world who can think for themselves and not let the nonsense of what the likes of you say dictate the destiny of their lives!! Age is just a number and you are just as young, or as old as you think!! Nowadays the aged are becoming more health conscience, living longer and accomplishing physical abilities once reserved for twenty somethings. Have you seen those Advil commercials lately with that 62 year old skateboarder? He looked like he could put those young high school teenagers to shame and because he is older and more experienced, can skateboard better!! And don't tell me he's more the exception than the rule!! Of course that shouldn't encourage any 60yr old to go out and do the same thing, but at least it's an encouraging example of what one can do if they put their mind to it old or young!! Because of this I wouldn't be surprised if 25 to 30 years from now they increase the life span by 10 to 15 years!! As one respondent put it: "the US is a youth oriented culture" and is more prevalent in western cultures. Quiet as it's kept, the real purpose for why the youth in this country is so valued is because seeing that the youth is not experienced enough to be hardened by life hazards they can be easily exploited and taken advantage of much more. The idea that just because as one gets older and encounter a couple health issues mean they should have a low self-esteem about themselves insulting!! What is society coming to, "Logan's Run"? It's really refreshing to see so many responses rebutting this warped sense of indoctrination!!!!