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Sorry for drifting off topic for a second, but I have a hard time letting a thought like that pass by un-noticed. Planning to work until the day you drop dead? Hmmmm, wonder if those plans just might change as you get older. People don't just retire for the heck of it (well most of us don't anyway). No matter how good your intentions are, odds are the day will come when you won't be able to work any more--but you'll still have many more years to live.
OK, sorry for that interruption. Back to the topic....
Omaha Rocks, you expect your kids to take care of you? How selfish of you.
Did I say I expect my kids to take care of me? How presumptuous of you.
What I will say is this. Unlike you (at least if what you've posted is true) I have not and will not turn my back on my parents - or my wife's parents. I will not celebrate their deaths, acting as though it's some good riddance. If my parents, or my in-laws, needed a place to live during their waning years they would be welcome in my home.
Apparently you and I are just very different people.
I'm in the process of retiring - I want to have lots of time to go and have fun - to do the things that my wife and I enjoy - including lots and lots of traveling.
Which is the most salient point. My spouse is almost at the age to start collecting social security. Neither of us are sprigs of youth anymore. We have zero sadness at being childfree. I look at my siblings, who are now grandparents, and my BIL, who is a great-grandfather. They are as equally happy in being doting elders. We are each happy in our differing situations.
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