I’m going to guess you’re a child or something, because 50 is not old at all lmao.

Especially if you actually take care of yourself. If you eat right and stay active, barring genetic issues, you can generally expect to live well beyond that and have a high quality of life with fewer health issues.

A male that is 50 has a median expectancy of another 30 years of life. A female has a median of another 33.45 years.

I know plenty of healthy, active 50+ year olds.

Because you get to taste freedom only sometime after 70. Would kinda leave a sour taste in my mouth if I had to work for decades and then just boot myself out.

This ain’t Logan’s Run

That wouldn’t give me very long, mate!

How old are you?

especially since health problems start becoming more frequent around that age.

Maybe in the US, but not the rest of the world. Americans need to travel abroad to understand just how sick they are as a group. They are popping pills for everything instead of addressing the cause of disease. Also, not all of us are idiots who believe in religion. Once you’re dead, you’re dead.

When you turn 49 you’ll know exactly why.

As someone close enough to 50 this would really freak me out if that was actually a thing. Personally I wouldnt even agree that 50 is that old either. Also what your saying is that basically nobody would have their parents in the later years of their life, hell the way times are changing i know a lot of people who have had kids over 35 so your saying their kids will lose their parents when they are like 10 years old. I still have my grandmother and its still amazing to see my parents, their siblings, and my grandmother which by your question would all be long dead. Also fyi none of them have anything awful health related yet either, hell my 87 year old grandmother still drinks some beers with us when we get together and loves a good IPA or stout.

Considering my life stopped getting better at 25 and I am in a financial mess right now, i am totally looking forward to retirement and my 60s to enjoy the last years of living and to finally stop working for the first time in my life since ive been 15… im looking forward to that.

Because many people have a desire to live as long as they can

I wish I hadnt made it past 20, who the fuck wants to live past 50?

As one over 50, death, such as by suicide, is (FAIK) irreversible.

The living can choose death, but the dead can’t choose life: they can choose nothing.

While I don’t have the vigour when I was, say, in my 20s, I still feel (at times at least) vigourous.

Ditto strength.

I might be mentally better, and such might last for a decade or 2.

Technology has gotten better. For example, there was a time when I was over 18 that I couldn’t post stuff like this on the internet, yet here I am making posts.

Why would you want to live beyond whatever age you are now? If tomorrow you were diagnosed with, say, arthritis, would you want to die?

I’m in my 60s. I’m enjoying life. Why would I want to die?

The only people I’ve know who wanted to die either had problems with depression or were suffering from painful, incurable diseases.

So your fundamental assumption here us that it is better to die than deal with health issues. That’s kind of insane mate.

Why would I want to die?

Because 50 is still young and most health problems at that age are very treatable.