What is the main reason people choose to continue to stay alive? answer: Quality of Life

If your quality of life is acceptable you are more likely to choose to continue to stay alive.

In the future, growing your own replacement organs might be pretty normal. For now, Heart Stents and open heart surgery and heart pacemakers keep a lot of people alive likely 20 years or more longer than they would have otherwise often into their 80s, 90s,  or 100s. So, it mostly is about quality of life that makes people choose to stay alive.

Another item helping people choose to live longer rather than being in constant debilitating pain is knee and hip replacements. IN 2014 my wife got a knee replacement and even though it took a couple of years to make it work perfectly, generally speaking this is much better than being on crutches or in a wheel chair the rest of your life because it's just too painful to do anything else.

So, why are people living longer? Quality of life if they can afford the medical technology to keep going in a way that makes them want to be alive longer.

However, what I found difficult was paying 1800 dollars a month by age 64 for full health insurance coverage. So, the hardest part of staying alive I found to be financial between the ages of 50 and 64 before you can get Medicare coverage.

There are some people who have perfect health until they drop away in their sleep at 100 years of age or so. However, that isn't what actually happens to 99% of the people on earth.

So, I would recommend getting full health insurance by your mid 40s if you are an average person so you don't go bankrupt paying your medical bills by 50 or 60 years of age.

Also, my wife's best friend from childhood got two hip replacements and this has given her a much better quality of life as well. I'm meeting more and more people who are in their 70s, 80s and 90s and beyond that have one or more of the following: Heart stents, open heart surgeries, pacemakers, knee and hip replacements (sometimes both knees and both hips as well). This incredibly increases quality of life so you don't just die from the pain and trying to walk with terrible pain the rest of your life too.

And if you can get to 65 for Medicare or if you can afford health insurance at any age any or all of these operations become possible too here in the U.S. without going bankrupt or making your family bankrupt in the process.