"From someone who has (hopefully) only lived about a quarter of their life"
Do other people feel the same way? Obviously future medical advances might change my mind on this, but I would prefer to die around 80...
I know the cliche is "you feel that now when you're young, you wait until you're my age and say that again"... but I suspect that when I do reach that age, my main reason for not euthanizing myself would be not wanting to upset people who know me, rather than because I actually want to live to be 100 years old.
While I completely respect your opinion and believe you and only you should be allowed to make the decision about when your life ends, I have to say that I also completely can't understand your perspective.
I want to live as long as medically possible, as long as I am not a vegetable or in horrible pain.
100 years, 200 years, 500, 1,000. I just don't think I will get bored of life.
If I don't get bored of life then I would change my mind... but I think I would, and based on, for example, old aged relatives of mine, I think they would agree with me even if they either havent said it out loud or haven't realised it themselves.
It is impossible to disentangle "bored of life" from "bored of being old" with current technology. It is very easy to imagine that people pretty freely conflate the two. Put an arthritic 80-year old on the verge of death from any of several conditions popping thirty pills a day in a fresh, healthy 18-year-old body and ask them if they're still "bored of life" in a month.
Do other people feel the same way? Obviously future medical advances might change my mind on this, but I would prefer to die around 80...
I know the cliche is "you feel that now when you're young, you wait until you're my age and say that again"... but I suspect that when I do reach that age, my main reason for not euthanizing myself would be not wanting to upset people who know me, rather than because I actually want to live to be 100 years old.