I am not sure if that is the most significant problem. I would think one of the biggest would be can I afford to live that long. If we expand our current number of employment years then we also are going to expand our number of retirement years. The cost of health care would be factor.

[Posted by: dave at May 6, 2005 4:11 PM]

I've addressed that very issue at more length elsewhere here:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/000151.php

As have others; the structure of retirement will change as life is longer. It will become a decades-long holiday, or the gap you take between thirty-year careers. As Aubrey de Grey says, "retirement benefits are for frail people, and there won't be any frail people."

[Posted by: Reason at May 6, 2005 4:22 PM]

now that ive hit 61 yrs,i feel like ive raised my kids but im still working not that i want too! they tell me that people are living longer. well thats fine, but how do they feel? im only working so that i may have health care. i would quit on a dime if i didnt have to pay for that. and on a depressing note i feel like its all down hill now. i only have death to look forward to. yes, i have grandkids but its just not the same. does anyone else feel this way or am i an exception?
thanks

[Posted by: jim at June 2, 2005 5:25 AM]