Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks agoIt doesn’t fall off immediately, though. For a lot of people, at least the first couple of years as pensioners are quite livable, especially in countries that have a low retirement age relative to their life expectancy (e.g. Japan).
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Also, retire early. You can't buy more time, and you definitely can't buy the energy and health you had.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Definitely. My grandfather died like 3 years into his retirement. His early death was kinda avoidable (he had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle and avoided going to doctors even though it’s fairly cheap in our country), but even people with healthy lifestyles can die early from accidents or diseases.
On the flipside, my grandmother is still doing pretty well more than a decade later. But she’d probably prefer spending her retirement with her husband.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Lol, what a pipedream. People these days are lucky to be able to retire at all.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
True, the implied was "if you can".