How many of your grandparents are still alive?

I have all four of them still going strong(they' re 76 and 75 from my mom's side and 84 and 82 from my dad's - grandfather and grandmother respectively). I' m only asking because all people of my age(20) I know have lost one or more of them.

How about you OT?

None, last one died about ten years ago

None. Lost the first one 3 or 4 decades ago and lost the last one about 5 years ago. And my god mother last year. Fortunately my parents are still here as well as my wife's parents, but we will probably start losing them within 5 years.

I think the correct term of question would be " Are both of your grandparents still living? " But Yes they are :) AussieePet

Well excuse someone whose native language is not english. :P

3/4

2 of em are lookin good, the other is in pretty bad shape

None, last one died for about a year, well i dont miss them everyday but i think of them quite often...

none.. both grandmothers died in the 80s..one grandpa died in 1995 an my last grandpa died last year

None, as far as I know.

On my mom's side - first one died at child birth and last one died about 15 years ago.

Only my grandma.:(

2. Both of my dad's parents are dead. Honestly I'm pretty amazed my mom's mom is still alive. She has had like 3 major surgeries in the past 5 years.

One

I have 4 grandparents and a great-grandparent who is like 94, alive and kicking. ferrari2001

Well congrats. You' re in the minority. :)

The rest of you people sorry to hear that. :(

4. I only really have a connection to 2. 

3. Though my nan doesn't remember who I am anymore, unfortunately.

They're all gone. :(

My parents are getting on up there in age, too. :(

None. And both of my parents are gone also.

None. And both of my parents are gone also.

Kage1

Sorry to hear that.

Two, the father of my father and the mother of my mother. 

None. my father also passed so I only have my mom left.

does anyone else here think that if your parents can live for another 15-20 years, health care technology and the technology that will be around in the future will extend their lives for another 20-30 years? its kind of like a race against time... xboxiphoneps3

20-30 years is a significant life prolongation. I hope it will be possible but I doubt it.

[QUOTE="xboxiphoneps3"]does anyone else here think that if your parents can live for another 15-20 years, health care technology and the technology that will be around in the future will extend their lives for another 20-30 years? its kind of like a race against time... johnd13

20-30 years is a significant life prolongation. I hope it will be possible but I doubt it.

[QUOTE="johnd13"]

[QUOTE="xboxiphoneps3"]does anyone else here think that if your parents can live for another 15-20 years, health care technology and the technology that will be around in the future will extend their lives for another 20-30 years? its kind of like a race against time... Wolfetan

20-30 years is a significant life prolongation. I hope it will be possible but I doubt it.

advanced, more detail MRI systems, robotic surgeries getting better and better, scanning technologies getting better and better by the day, scientists are slowly unraveling the human brain with supercomputers and how the brain works, nanotechnology, all this is very promising,i hope this future technology can save many lives including our parents ...

[QUOTE="Wolfetan"][QUOTE="johnd13"]

20-30 years is a significant life prolongation. I hope it will be possible but I doubt it.

xboxiphoneps3

If that' s true then it' s great news. For my parents and me of course. ;)

@wolfetan I' m sorry that your mother thinks like that :(

3/4. My Dad's father past away 5 years ago.

[QUOTE="xboxiphoneps3"][QUOTE="Wolfetan"] My mom doesn't, she says she wants to die:(johnd13

If that' s true then it' s great news. For my parents and me of course. ;)

@wolfetan I' m sorry that your mother thinks like that :(

[QUOTE="johnd13"]

[QUOTE="xboxiphoneps3"] even 10 years can make a big difference, i think i read somewhere that health care in 10 years will be like 1000x better then it is now, but genome sequencing is getting cheaper by the day and scientists are making some serious progress in the health field,xboxiphoneps3

If that' s true then it' s great news. For my parents and me of course. ;)

@wolfetan I' m sorry that your mother thinks like that :(

That last part seems like science-fiction to me. Who knows? Maybe it' s time for humanity to do its greatest leap towards technological advancement and therefore in healthcare as well. I know I' ll be eager to know of any new amazing discoveries.

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My dad's farther died before I was born, his mother died in 2000.

My mum's farther died in 2004, her mother is still alive and is 86.

[QUOTE="xboxiphoneps3"][QUOTE="johnd13"]

If that' s true then it' s great news. For my parents and me of course. ;)

 

@wolfetan I' m sorry that your mother thinks like that :(

johnd13

That last part seems like science-fiction to me. Who knows? Maybe it' s time for humanity to do its greatest leap towards technological advancement and therefore in healthcare as well. I know I' ll be eager to know of any new amazing discoveries.

My grandparents from my father's side are still alive.

None. My dad's parents passed away in 1993 and 1998. Mom's passed in 2003 and 2005.

I think the correct term of question would be " Are both of your grandparents still living?"AussieePet

That would be correct if you only had two grandparents. Most people, however, have four.

[QUOTE="johnd13"]

[QUOTE="xboxiphoneps3"] yeah man it sounds very promising, us humans are moving at a ridicolous rate technology wise, pretty hard to believe we have all these things we have today... i even read somewhere there will be a good amount of baby boomers still alive in the late 21st century/early 22nd century xboxiphoneps3

That last part seems like science-fiction to me. Who knows? Maybe it' s time for humanity to do its greatest leap towards technological advancement and therefore in healthcare as well. I know I' ll be eager to know of any new amazing discoveries.

As I see it, it' s really a race against time for us and our parents(or loved ones in general). How many years we' ll live and on what conditions is all a matter of when such breakthroughs(like Singularity) will take place. One can only hope.