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If You Retire… You Expire… Is It True?

Generally yes, the stats for the physical labor/trades workforce dying after retirement is an average of only a few years post retirement. Work your life away to die anyhow, we got this shit all fucked up.
 
JohnMcc said:
Generally yes, the stats for the physical labor/trades workforce dying after retirement is an average of only a few years post retirement. Work your life away to die anyhow, we got this shit all fucked up.
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It's sad no doubt, especially if short lifespans run in your family. Those who have long life in the family are pretty much envied.
 
Both my parents are retired military. My mom is in her 60s and took up teaching water aerobics and has local dance groups she hangs out with friends at. My pops is in his 70s and goes for a morning swim every day. He also drives a '73 Jeep with no power steering. It seems trivial but I think there is something to having to shift and steer, seems to keep him somewhat spry. They're both still ambulatory/independent.
It does take effort. My mom just had foot surgery and even when she was laid up I saw she was putting sticky notes on all the tvs reminding her to get up and move once an hour. She remarked how nice it felt to sit, watch tv, and eat snacks.
 
I retired 5 years ago at age 58. I am 64 and i am still here and doing well, at least in my opinion. and worked in the trades all my life. One has to look at why a person retired. Most that retire early say 62, do so sooner then they expected. Due to health reasons from my reading. And are not as financially as well off as they wanted. Yet on the average those that retire at age 62 live for 20 more years according to the SS website. which seems to be what other sources say as well.

Actuarial Life Table

Actuarial Life Table
www.ssa.gov
 
Yes it definitely happens, my father retired union carpenter and he got me in for few years so I know plenty of the same people he knows, people retire and it atleast 50% of them don’t make it for a few months , one guy died couple weeks after he retired
 
Those that spend all their life working and have little else have no purpose once they retire. Many people think they will start doing things , traveling etc. But never do and then it is down hill. If you don't have a life before you retire getting gone after is not easy to do.
 
I know some people who are living their best life, golfing five days a week, traveling, etc. And Others that are sitting at home rapidly deteriorating
 
I'm not far from it myself. I've seen it happen. Years back the man I replaced at a company made it less than 2 years. I believe myself that it's totally dependent on lifestyle. An object in motion tends to stay in motion as I've heard before. The older you get the more important it is to keep moving so we don't clog up so to speak. Don't keep the engine oiled and it slings a rod. I understand also that there comes a time when mechanical failure is unavoidable. Do what you can while you can.
 
One of my techs retired recently about a month ago and passed yesterday. His plan was to take a 3 week break from all labor and get a hobby.
 
Almost 73 and still active as hell. Travel over 60 days a year on vacay -hike - fish -go to events -concerts -Vegas etc . Most of my friends either ran out of $$$ or health or BOTH. Enjoy life and live it every day .I love working -not as fast as I used to be - but don't care .
 
ordawg1 said:
Almost 73 and still active as hell. Travel over 60 days a year on vacay -hike - fish -go to events -concerts -Vegas etc . Most of my friends either ran out of $$$ or health or BOTH. Enjoy life and live it every day .I love working -not as fast as I used to be - but don't care .
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You rock, old salt!

Living life to the max after retirement is a great thing and I'd be planning to do the same when I retire in 7 years.
 
This is factual.
When I first heard of this statement or expression I was young.
There was an old-timer that I worked with doing a very demanding and dangerous job.
It was more labor that was demanding and taxing, but there was some very risky and dangerous things to the job as well that made it quite exciting for me being young.
This old timer, we could hardly understand a thing he said, but whenever he yelled at us we could understand the curse words and that was about it.
I recall driving home one time back to the yard with him, we were in the company truck and he lit up a joint which actually surprised me, I didn't think he was down with that, and I honestly didn't smoke and I don't smoke. But I felt it was an honor. So when the man hand you a joint, you take the joint. I had so much respect for this guy it's not even funny. If I can remember half the shit that he forgotten I would be a better man.
During our stoned voyage home I asked him, why are you still working?
And again I was surprised when he responded very coherently and I understood every word, he emphasized if he retires he'll die.
Fast forward several years, I was still in the same line of work but with several other companies since then. With the type of work we were doing, all of the surrounding companies knew of all the guys at different companies, there was a camaraderie with all of us.
And word got out that he passed away, We were all saddened. And I eventually learned that he retired not too soon prior.
He called it.
Fast forward, as life went on that stuck in my head. And then I noticed it happened with other people, no one I knew particularly, but rather acquaintances.

I have done manual labor my entire life, So this was all manual labor connected.

Makes me wonder if it's a manual labor thing?? 🤷

These old timers still got their hands dirty, but they worked smarter and not harder.
But they were definitely in the trenches taking grenades with us young guys.
 
"I truly believe that when you retire, you expire. To put it more bluntly, you’re basically jumping into a grave the day you stop working."

So this guy thinks that you should basically work up until the day you die? Maybe if you really enjoy your job (few people do) or if you have no life outside of work this could be applicable. Possibly he's referring to cases where people had nothing going on in their lives other than work so after they retired they basically just sat around waiting to die which I could see hastening your demise.

Personally I think that this is bullshit and couldn't possibly disagree more. My wife and I busted our asses and scrimped and saved our entire lives specifically so that we could retire in our early 50's. I turned 60 last year (my wife is 58). We're both in excellent health, workout regularly and could both pass for a lot younger. Some of our neighbors think that we're still in our 40's. Our lives have never been better. Of course being reasonable well off and not having to worry about money helps a lot here.

We both saw far too many people who waited (for various reasons) far too long to retire. They worked hard their entire lives but by the time they retired they were too old (and in poor health) to enjoy it. As my wife once put it "What would have been the point of us working so hard and scrimping and saving our entire lives to get to where we are far better off financially than we ever dreamed was possible, only to work up until the day that we drop dead?"
 
johnl1800 said:
"I truly believe that when you retire, you expire. To put it more bluntly, you’re basically jumping into a grave the day you stop working."

So this guy thinks that you should basically work up until the day you die? Maybe if you really enjoy your job (few people do) or if you have no life outside of work this could be applicable. Possibly he's referring to cases where people had nothing going on in their lives other than work so after they retired they basically just sat around waiting to die which I could see hastening your demise.

Personally I think that this is bullshit and couldn't possibly disagree more. My wife and I busted our asses and scrimped and saved our entire lives specifically so that we could retire in our early 50's. I turned 60 last year (my wife is 58). We're both in excellent health, workout regularly and could both pass for a lot younger. Some of our neighbors think that we're still in our 40's. Our lives have never been better. Of course being reasonable well off and not having to worry about money helps a lot here.

We both saw far too many people who waited (for various reasons) far too long to retire. They worked hard their entire lives but by the time they retired they were too old (and in poor health) to enjoy it. As my wife once put it "What would have been the point of us working so hard and scrimping and saving our entire lives to get to where we are far better off financially than we ever dreamed was possible, only to work up until the day that we drop dead?"
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Of course keeping busy and active helps a lot after retirement. Happy and healthy people live longer more productive lives no doubt. Props to you and your wife for making the most of retirement!
 
Bolan said:
No but I see him everyday :)
He trains with all the old farts. But still lifts some "heavy" weight for his age. He outworks the other old fellaz.
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He must outlift you lmao jk

I do know a few guys around his age at my gym that can move serious weight though.
 

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