What happens to old people who don't have kids or nieces/nephews?

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I don't wanna die in some shithole nursing home where no one loves me!!!

I know some of the older ILXors must have thought about this. How are the non-breeders preparing for their old age?

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

You'll have about a thousand kids and grandkids, trust me.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

they'll have more money than us breeders. :-)

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Adam's been stealing your sperm for weeks.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Well, I was wondering who cleaned up after noise dude circle jerks (while we coddle).

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Jon got Lucy Liu pregnant and he doesn't know it yet! The only reason I know is because I overheard her at the spa the other day!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

http://media.bestprices.com/content/vhs/60/151262.jpg

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

You'll have to get rich so you can befriend a golddigger.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

My Sexbot XXX/Nurse model will be invented by then.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm afraid of dying old and alone, but I plan to rely on several dozen pets for companionship. And my feces-covered domicile will be my legacy. Who needs kids when you can get news coverage for living (and dying) in filth.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Women are 4x as likely to hoard pets as men are.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Do you want a straight answer? (I only ask because you so rarely start threads with any thing remotely like a serious intent.)

First point - you don't get to choose when or how you die. It's a total lottery. You can shave the odds a bit by avoiding self-destructive behavior, but that's no guarantee of anything. The only guarantee is that you will die - in more or less pain and humiliation, depending on circumstances. If you are rich, you get to die with cleaner sheets.

Family is a great self-perpetuating bond that travels through the generations, but it isn't the only one. Friendship is more difficult to build than family ties - it doesn't just pop out of the vending machine when you're born - but it can be just as enduring. Friends rally to you when you're ill or in trouble, just like family does.

The best way to die unloved is to be an unlovable and unlovely person. If you want to die uncared for, don't ever care about anyone but yourself. Neglect or abuse your family enough and they'll abandon you. too, even if you're a breeder.

I'm sure you knew all this already.

I would guess you are in your early twenties and live in a city, that you have some buddies and maybe a girlfriend, but nobody you'd give your right arm for. At that time of life and in that situation, it is easy to lose track of this simple, obvious stuff.

Just don't lose track of it for too long, because when you do get around to putting together a life out of more enduring pieces you'll be a lot more successful and satisfied if you do it on firm foundation, like helping and caring for your friends and family, not the stupid delusory shit like chasing fame or hankering after iPods.

As for the financial preparations for old age, poverty is shitty, but it isn't the end of the world. Do what you can.

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― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

they die

― jeffrey (johnson), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Aimless, yet again OTM. (Still hoping for the sexbot, though)

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

i like life is a lot more unfair than aimless's post implies.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Please elaborate. I'm prepared to entertain new ideas, if the new ideas will settle for Ritz crackers and Cheez Whiz.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I'll let you know when I get old. Aimless pretty much otm though. the biggest fear for me is having to suffer the indignities of old age w/out my wife (rather than w/out kids).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 22 July 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

jon, pay me for our baby's child support!!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully when it's my time, there will be places to check out peacefully like Edward G. Robinson did in Soylent Green. I don't even care if they turn me into graham crackers or whatnot.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I look forward to eating some of the older ILX posters as I approach the end of middle age.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Bite me, Adam. ; )

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

can't wait, you look simply delicious.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pets.ca/breedprofiles/a/pomeranian/p9.jpg

― andy --, Friday, 22 July 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Have you tried one, andy? They go well with asparagus and white wine.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 July 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Do you know a place where they bring them live to the table to choose, Adam?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 July 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

http://mascotas-uy.com/perros/_derived/Pembroke%20Welsh%20Corgi.htm_txt_Pembro5.gif

we will always luv you, jon!!!

― cutey corgi (rosemary), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

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