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I don't know, I've heard so many stories of people that, after 90+ years, are just bored of life. It's unimaginable to me now but I've only been an adult for a small fraction of the time they've been and so maybe you can really just run out of things to do.


> I don't know, I've heard so many stories of people that, after 90+ years, are just bored of life.

Would they still feel that way if they had youthful energy and a more elastic mind, I wonder? Hard to tell. I myself hope I'm more like Donald Knuth in my old age - still curious and learning and progressing.


Maybe, my grandmother was like this at 80, she had a great life but she’d seen enough, eaten enough cakes, hugged enough grandchildren, she wasn’t depressed just felt satisfied.

She was very peaceful, she died at 86.




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