Longevity in your family

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Were there any members of your family whose life lasted much longer than average? My great grandmother died at the age of 95 and her death was the direct result of injuries of stomach sustained during an accident she met some years before - one doctor said that if not that accident he wouldn't be suprised if she lived 10 years more. My another very distant relative was in his 90's when he died. There were also few other people in my family who parted company with pleasures of this world being in their 80's.

My great-grandfather (my mothers, fathers, father) turned 99 this year...and he is still driving!
My great-grandmother (my mothers, fathers, mother) turned 92 this year...and while she's not still driving due to poor vision, she's not ill either.

My great-grandparents on the otherside of the family passed away a bit earlier at the ages of 76 and 86...

I don't know which genes I inheritted.

Everyone in my family died in their early 80s. Or late 70s. Sucks for me.

Lifespans into the 80s and 90s are very common in my family. I even had a cat that lived to be the feline equivalent of a 98-year-old human.

My grandma turned 80 and is alive and still takes mile walks every day. She's got another 10 years I say!

My parents generation seemed to have early deaths, my mom died at 70 from alzheimers,
my dad, who was almost 80, died last year from heart disease, he was also a heavy smoker,
his brother died of cancer caused by smoking cigars, and his sister died of brain cancer. My
dads parents lived to a fairly old age , his dad lived into his early 80's and died of a stroke,
and his mom died of pancreatic cancer at 75. On my moms side, her mom died at 35 from
pneumonia, this was before antibiotics, her dad died at 67 from a stroke, all of my mom's
sisters died of cancer, except for my mom, they were binge drinkers and smokers. I sort of
hope I will break the tradition of dying of cancer, heart disease and stroke, since I don't smoke,
and never was a smoker, I am an occasional social drinker, I watch what I eat, I have a great
cholesterol level, for a man my age, and have no wrinkles. I am hoping to be the first in my
family to hit 110, unless some of my older cousins beat me, I hope they do. My dads grandfather
lived to 97, he was active right up until he died, a funny story about him, was when some punks
tried to rob him in an elevator and he beat the crap out of them, this was a few months before he
passed away, he had one guy by the throat on the ceiling, and the other on the floor under his
boot, he was an old danish man who use to dig basements by hand and was still very strong, he
also ran a saloon in Minnesota back in the 1880's, and had the nickname Scrappy Olsen, because
he would break up
fights by clobbering both parties.

My parents died in their 50's/60's. However, their parents all lived well into their 80's. Hope I get the grandparents' gene expression-rather than how things went for my parents.

Based on how old my great-grandparents were on both sides of my family, I should see my mid to late eighties.

My great grand mother died at 92

My paternal grandmother (who also has Aspergers) is 84 years old, chainsmokes cigars and is an alcoholic. Her health isn't below average, though...

My mother's parents died in their late 50s; they were both heavy chain smokers. My grandmother's sister, however, is 93 or 94 at the moment, and she's doing ok; she's got poor vision and she moves slowly, but other than that, she's fine. My aunt on that side is almost 60, but she passes for 40, and she's pretty healthy; I wouldn't be surprised if she made it to her 80s, at least.

My paternal great-grandmothers (one on each side) both lived to be in their 90s as well, I believe. My paternal grandmother is beginning to totter out at 66 (maybe; I never knew her age exactly), but my grandfather is doing ok, and he's three years older than her.

Most of my relatives seem to have lived until their late 60's to mid 70's. So, I guess I will probably live to around 70. Wow, I'm practically half-way there!

My mom's mother is 104. She can't do too much physically but is still there mentally. My dad's dad lived to be 88 and he smoked at least two packs a day and was an alcoholic right up until he died.

My relatives tend to die early from cancer or hear disease or live to a ripe old age, passing away from natural causes before one's mid 80s is very uncommon in my family. My dad's grandparents, who were both born in 1883 and came here from Norway in 1901, are a perfect example of this. Great-grandpa Andrei died of a heart attack in 1938 at the age of 54 while great-grandma Anna died of old age in 1979 when she was 96.

Father's side: Too much smoking and related heart disease and cancer, suicide, and HIV to live to a ripe old age.

Mother's side: Too much heart disease/smoking, obesity, Alzheimer's, pesticide-related cancer and suicide to live to a ripe old age.

I don't smoke, am not obese, don't want to kill myself, probably don't have Alzheimer's from my mother (as she doesn't have it), don't farm and use pesticides, and don't have unprotected sex, so I should live into my 90s.

Z