Reply #8: Perhaps not nice to say, but it came up here yesterday, and my [View All]

spouse and a male friend have been checking the obits for well over a year and noticing the 50 somethings listed.

My mother's spouse is 75, and they were here yesterday for fun, food and drink. The President's ears should still be on fire, but I digress. He is a retired union plumber, who specialized in large jobs. My spouse is a journeyman lineman who realized that he couldn't finish his chosen field of work until he was 65. Mom's husband has a huge scar from surgery on a shoulder that my spouse needs to have someday, although I think that the surgery has improved so that it won't leave the huge scar.

Hubby's knees are also shot from climbing poles...some people can't work until 65 or 67, and some just drop dead from lack of care. :shrug: