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As of some time yesterday, I am older than my father lived. He died from accidental drowning, not natural cause.
Still, I reflect on the thought.

I wonder sometimes why the Good Lord has kept me around, maybe there is something I yet need to do?

I lost my mother to cancer when I was 16. I too, often, wonder why?

Lost dad 17 years ago at age 81. Prostate cancer. I'm 66, have had a heart attack at 57, and now have type 2 diabetes. Modern medicine has kept me alive. I don't look that old, compared to some of my friends, but inside I have too many ailments, aches and pains. Were only talking another 15 years if I make it to dad's age when he passed. I sure do miss him.

I hope he keeps you around a good deal longer!

Dad will be even with Grandpa next year.

I hope he goes a lot longer too!


No idea if my biological family was long lived or not.

My Dad is 75. As I type this, he is in the hospital having had a stroke recently. I hope I die at work sometime in my late 60s, Dad lived too long.

Dad is 84, his father lived to 77.

My dad lived to 92. I'm 70 so I have a ways to go. Mom is still going at 101. If long life is at least partly genetic, I could last a while yet.

My dad was 83, I don’t. Know if I’ll get there!

Pops has lived longer than his father by 5 years this year. All because of modern medicine. He has survived two med/mild heart attacks, two strokes and prostate cancer.

Get back to me in 25+ years.

I still have 23 years to beat his mark.

My paternal grandfather lived to be 92. My father had his first heart attack at 67 and was in poor health until he passed from a stroke at 74. I am 55 and I wonder about my own prospects often. For sure, there are no guarantees and none of us know how many days we have left.

My dad died too young at 53–he drank. I’m 70
Of my kin that didn’t drink most lasted into their 90’s

My daddy's 86, he still cuts his own grass, does his own snow blowing and when I broke my ankle in January he was my chauffeur to work every day until I could drive again.

My Dad's ninety and hanging in there so I won't know the answer to that for at least three decades. His Father passed on at 51 but being a coal miner likely overrode any genetic factors.

I'm 69, my father died of a heart attack at age 53. My grandfather lived to be 84, and he had survived several heart attacks and strokes before he died of a heart attack.

So far, so good, no sign of heart disease with me.

"Have you lived longer than your father?"


Yes. And my mother. My father died in 1965, at 65, my mother died in 1981, at 73.

I'm still ticking along, thankfully.

L.W.

Same here. Biological family history is unknown.


However, I can surmise that my actual mother and father must have been very intelligent and really good lookin'...

I'm 65, father died at 51. A cardiac arrhythmia.

Yes I have. My father died at a very early age. He was 35 and they said it was likely a heart attack. His father lived to age 75 or 76.

I\I am nearly 83 and do not have any serious health issues that we know about. The LORD is gracious to some of us.

Dad died in 2012, mom died in 2016.

It sucks. Death comes to everyone eventually, but it's difficult when you've believed they were immortal since you could walk talk...

Sorry to anyone reading this and lost a parent. Precious parents, a gift from God. Has to be a god.

Dad turns 89 Sept 1, Mom is 83. Grandpa made it to 96, Grandma to 94. My maternal grandfather died in his late 70s of emphysema. But he smoked about a can of Black Velvet per day, starting at age 12.

No, I am not opting for early Social Security.