Organizing Your Own Living Funeral

If I was to organize my own funeral I would invite family and friends. I wouldn't want people to be sad and cry because thats not going to do anything but waste time. I don't really think that death should be thought of as a bad thing. Me personally I'm not really scared of death because once you die you die. You don't know how you will feel when you are dead or where you will go. It could be another world for all we know and we just start over. I think the only message that I would want to get out is that death doesn't have to be a bad thing that is feared and that sitting around crying that someone died is a waste of time because they are not coming back.

Medical issues of old people Questions

Answers for old people questions

-Why does the immune system weaken?

I think because the body weakens from aging. Everything starts to weaken when around for a long time.

-What percentage of old folks have dementia?

Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia afflict up to 5 million people in the United States and about 26 million people worldwide. By 2050, there could be 13 million cases of Alzheimer's alone among U.S. baby boomers and the aging Generations X and Y, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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23.4 percent CIND to 4.8 percent dementia for people 65 and older NIA
(National Institute on Aging)

-How have medical advances affected the way that old people live?

I think that the medical advances affect the old people's lives by sort of making them less of who they really are. They take different medicines every mourning that change their mind of how they would think without the meds.

-How does aging affect one's perspective of the world and overall mindset?

-Is it possible for an old person to be as fit as a young person?

-What is the most feared thing for old people?

-When won't an old person be resesitated?

-How much money is spent on a person with 2 weeks to live?

-How much money is spent on old folks?

-How long does the average person live?

The average person lives about 77 years.

-What percentage of old people are on anti-depressants? Pills? Viagra?

Old Folks Assignments So Far

I do not interact with old people very much. The only old people I really know are my grandparents. I see my mothers parents only once a year and my fathers parents about once a month. None of my grandparents really fit the stereo type of old people that were brought up in class. They are all really nice to me and my brothers. I don't think they have ever yelled at us or gave us a hard time. They aren't always grumpy and they don't smell bad. I don't really think of them as old people because they are all in their 80s and in good shape. I think they love me and care about me the same way as I do for them.