Single and lonely people, do you ever wonder how you'll survive in old age?

When your strength leaves you, and you can no longer take care of yourself, what would you do?

Have you made any plans for that? Employ a caretaker? Check yourself into a retirement home? Ask a relative for help?

After a lifetime of solitude, would you trust someone else to take care of you and not rob you and give you a miserable death?

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Loretta78 · 46-50, F

Well, all those ones are very good questions.

I was alone my whole life and I know it for 100 % sure that no one will ask for me when I am old and my strength will leave me.

That's why I'm paying already since almost 10 years every month almost 100 Dollar in a special insurance that foreign people will help me to survive when I am old and have no strength anymore.

And no, I don't think that someone will try to rob me and give me a miserable death. I am too poor for that.

What about you?

rrraksamam · 31-35, M

@Loretta78 I don't plan to live that long

markansas

@Loretta78 i feel pain when i read your response . for myself i am in the same way . i live alone and will die alone. at 66 now what are my chances of finding some one to be part of my life . to sit by me and hold my hand watching tv.. to pick me up if i fall. they are getting less and less all the time. i own my house free and clear . however i make less than 900 a month . the house needs repairs so even the thought of falling off a ladder make its harder to do those repairs. for it might mean me laying there and not having help come. i know what i need is a wife . a friend or a room mate to live with me.. and that might not happen . you are younger so get out there and talk to people and find someone please. mark