Concerns about being alone/isolated while growing older

filosophicalaardvark · 2019-10-17T17:16:40+00:00

Guarantees? Women will leave you for any nonsensical reason. There is no guarantee of anything

throwaway85176 · 2019-10-17T17:20:18+00:00

When I can no longer take care of myself I’ll put a bullet through my own brain.

Most dignity least effort.

expendablekerosene · 2019-10-17T17:36:14+00:00

I have a buddy who's in his late 70s and never married. He has a large network of friends who he talks to constantly, they'll notice. When the time comes that he can't live alone he can afford to move into a nice assisted-living facility.

Blissbynature · 2019-10-18T00:21:32+00:00

Just come to grips with death.

Your life will end and so will mine. Give up the "what if this, what if that" fear.

JohnPettimore · 2019-10-17T22:30:21+00:00

I posted about this a few weeks ago.

My mother is 89, and has paid companions with her for about twelve hours a day. She's rather frail, and these ladies are great. She really loves them, and they're good friends to her. They help her dress. They go shopping. They keep her company -- and they're good people. They help her get ready for bed. Every single situation you describe has a solution this way. They drive her to doctors' appointments, and so on. She's comfortable, happy, safe and very well looked-after because of these ladies. As with so many things in life, this all boils down to one thing: money.

DangZagnut · 2019-10-17T17:15:58+00:00

Who will drive you? A friend or Uber or take the bus.

Carry a phone on you, 911 or whatever where you are summons help.

Alternately, go get married and divorced and be in the exact same scenario. What if she goes to the store or movies while you’re dying. Same thing.

Hire a maid to come by if you’re worried. Or check into an old age home early if you wish. Or have a daily safety call.

SomeGhostingGuy · 2019-10-17T19:11:02+00:00

When I work at home I carry a little cell phone on a string around my neck. One of those "prison phones" .. a "Zanco Wasp"

I got smarter after I locked myself in the attic during a nice cold winter day. I just checked some cabling or something and when I wanted to open the door to the 1st floor I had the handle of the door in my hand. Got cold pretty fast and took me ap. 1 hr to improvise some crap to open the heavy, fireproof door leading to the attic.

Also working with tools in my spare time always has risks and I do not always have my smartphone in my pockets.

I travel for work a lot and alone. Twice I have been hauled to the hospital with blue lights on and woke up in hospital garments. In these cases our local road side assistance that offers some extra work and travel insurance really paid off. Money well spent as they picked up my car and hauled it back to my employers place, took care of stuff...

Else I learnt that "people without contacts" are not that unusual, many elderly are, many that work abroad, ... the systems can deal with these cases as they have to do so quite often.

Also, taking a nice walk in a cold winter night with a bottle of booze is always an option.

CpuDoc67 · 2019-10-18T12:04:26+00:00

Funny thing is I don't worry about being older and alone. This is mainly preached by females and blue pill males.

The reality of it is you could die before you finish reading this sentence at any age. Growing older is NOT guaranteed, I've heard of plenty of guys my age or younger who have died. Some have died from accidents, terminal illness, suicide, stroke, heart attack and even victims of crime.

My concern is a experiencing long drawn out painful death. I'd like to take the express route out of this existence.

What about the people who have been married 15+ years and still end up getting divorced???

Life has only one guarantee, which is it will END.

GoodMan_Gone · 2019-10-17T17:14:29+00:00

I have been thinking the same thing. Frankly I'm not that scared. If something serious like a major stroke would hit me I'd rather get it over with quickly over having to rot away in a caring home for 10 years. All things less severe I'll manage to crawl to my phone, call the paramedics and have them smash my doors. Hospital transfers? Public transport or call a cab.

peguy2000 · 2019-10-17T17:20:41+00:00

I had these thoughts too.

A room mate would be a option or a maid that comes a few times a week

Finding a life partner is impossible in our age. Best you can hope for is 5 years with a woman tops

You could also try doing charity stuff and connect with people there or join a local club, like a book club or music etc.

Make friends you can invite over weekly and have dnd sessions or watch something you enjoy, have a nice meal with them etc... its all about social links

bushmaster2000 · 2019-10-17T22:20:16+00:00

Also having similar thoughts about living alone and getting older. Find a younger family member you enjoy interacting with and setup what is more or less a check-in whether that's a phone call, email, video chat something so you have a consistant schedule of communicatoin with someone that would care if they didn't hear fromyou.

malte-gustav_towski · 2019-10-17T22:40:10+00:00

(all advices depending on the kind of work you are doing)

develop a circly of friends (probably in the same independent field you work for and therefore have time for you during the daytimes)
go to your customers place some days during the week to work directly with them on large projects
dive into the digital nomads scene and connect (a lot of nomands prefer to work a couple of days with you at your kitchen table than spending a month rent in a coworking space)
engage in the hospex atmosphere (couchsurfing, etc)

dont care too much about the medical stuff - health care (and monitoring) is improving everyday.

Massgumption · 2019-10-18T04:35:55+00:00

Make some close like minded friends.

HumanzDisgustMe · 2019-10-18T07:25:13+00:00

Buy Life Alert “I’ve fallen and can’t get up.”

Go to an assisted living apartment.

Borgmeister · 2019-10-18T07:34:35+00:00

I became aware several years ago that no one ever contacted me over weekends. Or weeks off. Or during a sabbatical. And I didn't really miss that contact. I'm objectively aware I might be one of those long undiscovered dead should something happen to me. But that's the Corpse-Columbuses problem. Not mine!

since25jan2019 · 2019-10-18T07:35:19+00:00

It could be worse. You might be homeless, with no job and no friends, living in feminazi Canada, like me.

To make matters worse, I've got some psycho stalking me; he's tried to kill me once already. Feminazi Police don't give a fuck.

ViolentJenniferLopez · 2019-10-18T11:23:53+00:00

Married men don't worry about growing old alone, because most die early and never get a chance to truly live.

Title	Concerns about being alone/isolated while growing older
Author	LayWood
Upvotes	23
Comments	18
Date	October 17, 2019 5:04 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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