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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 03-May-2021 20:59:34 UTC
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>He said his younger brother retired at age 65, but sat around and died within a year.
This and a few other things is what prompted me to make the move I did almost two years ago. I have known too many people that were on the edge or just retired that passed either a month or so before retiring or a month or so after. The last one was someone my age, no kids or SO, had spent the last several decades investing in everything from stocks to fish to to houses and was about $100 a month in monthly returns from retiring (guessing it would have been less than a year in time to get there), moving to Florida and driving a parts truck for something to do when he passed in his sleep. That was a wake up call to me.
While I would love to retire and just travel the world, I think I would get bored, this has happened on some of our longer vacations near the end. Not to mention I have nowhere near the funds to do something like that. Yet.