My grandparent were active and dropped dead at 82 and 83.
My grandfather built a barn when he was 83.

My parents could not take the garbage out after age 82, and needed assistance to 90.

Those last 8 years were not quality years, but to quote my father, "It beats the alternative"


There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps