Why do the majority of guys feel this way?

I don't have enough appendages for all the guys I've heard say a similar thing of "I'm gonna die at *x number of years (usually in 30's)*"

I know they don't seriously mean it, but why do so many of them claim it?
Is there nothing to look forward to in your minds about getting older?

Just curious, and I know not all guys will agree with this, so I'll make a poll

I don't want to die half way through my life. I think that way of thinking is stupid and just emo. I rather die old and happy and with the feeling that I've accomplished something because dying half way just seems half assed unless its accidental. I haven't met any guy that wants to die yet though I doubt any of them would want to.

It probably depends on how their life is going at the moment. If you have a good job with a nice place to live and a girl who can stand the sight of ya, you probably have a better disposition. If you live in your grandmothers basement and flip soyburgers for a living, and your only friend is the poster of an anime girl taped to your ceiling, then maybe the idea of spending alot of time alive doesn't seem that great.

I certainly don't think that way, and I never heard anyone say that before.

Maybe they're not confident enough in the way they live now? I wouldn't know their reasoning for making that statement.

To answer your second question, yes. There is definitely something to look forward to but it requires more work and I've been spoiled by my parents. Time to earn money myself.

You're lucky. <_< I'd love to get some slack once in a while. Especially with a car. I feel like I'm in a catch 22.

I think I hear it most of the time the guys are joking, not really emo, but they're persistent about the joke. Like saggy balls, being old and gross, etc.

Well, I feel like that too.
But mine is different. I don't see why people want to die around 35...
I want to die by 75-80, no longer, no less. Personally, I want to see my grandchildren, and then I want to die once I see then grow into their teens.
I haven't lived that far, so I wouldn't know, but it seems life will be no more fun past 80 years of age.

Keep it known, however, I live a great life at the moment.

meh, not that it's a real aspiration but people that die younger/early are remembered more fondly than those who died of old age in their 80's, the same can be said for those who die at ridiculously old ages (100+), it's just that 75-85 year old gap when people seem to be expected to die.

Plus I really do believe my sub 50 years will be my most entertaining years and my plus 50 will be the years I have to deal with many problems (health mostly). I'm not sure on the age I plan on going out but i hope that when I do go out it's in some sort of blaze of glory; either saving a busload of kids/hot girls or killing one.

I actually hear that sometime, I've said it to a few times as well.
The phrase 'mid-life crisis' does actually hold valid when men reach middle aged, so rather than accept the fact that one day they may turn out like that
[size=10](clinging to what ever youth they can find, perhaps buying that jet-ski, motorcycle, sports car etc, or looking for younger women(if single/divorced etc) or even trying to spend more time with younger ppl(siblings or children)[/h],
they claim "I'll be dead before I am 30-40."
Another reason could rather be that most men don't know where they'll be in life around that age, so it a lot easier to just say death is my future, that way they get some laughs out of some ppl, while to others the notion of death makes them feel awkward thus they usually drop the subject. I hear this a lot when out with by buddies, some of us would often say something similar to that, then chug his beer and ask for another, usually we say something like "10 more years till my liver is gone"
Reasons y I've said it are because I generally have no clue were I'll be when I am 30-40 so saying I'll be dead is a lot easier, usually ppl chance the subject then i.e parents,relatives. I really have no clue what the future has in store.
Then again this is all just my thoughts on this matter, right now I am fine with life, thou i still have no clue what age 30 has for me, but meh....nano desu

fear of the unknown? not wanting to settle down? i dont know, but girls think this way too! at least i do sometimes. im not too excited to be middle aged/old, or for anything that comes with it (having a boring job/husband, popping out tons of babies, and getting wrinkly, ugly, saggy and fat. very limited potential.)

i think spalose said it pretty well. in the long run, its probably easier to say you'll be dead than to get your hopes up about your future.

I don't know, I look forward to gaining age. I think it's vain to not want to age because your skin might get wrinkly or you won't look like you're 17 anymore.

Maybe it's just because of my one grandpa. He's such a bad influence lol he's over 60 and he acts like a child. He asks me if I'm having sex and when I look at him funny he tells me I'd be stupid if I wasn't because the guy I'm seeing is cute. He taught me how to make an ice bowl for pot, despite me not smoking. He's just cooky. But at the same time he's the smartest man I've ever known. Ask him anything and he seems to know it. He can do things from sewing very well to putting in his own downstairs bathroom.

Ask him anything in history, politics, religion, etc and he knows it.

He's just so knowledgeable. I think that only comes with age and experience.

I think sometimes people forget that older folks also have fun, and that there are positive aspects to being that age too. Everyone just focuses on 'oh I'll be in pain'

There are times when there are bad incidences that occur when you get older and life may not be fair, but tell me when life was fair when you were young too?

Life is never fair, so you might as well enjoy the parts of it that you have.

Not planning to die at all. 8)

to die??? wtf? hell no... i would miss bunch of animes & hentais & Fakku! hell no,no,no,no... i want to live and be an otaku as possible ^^

I've heard that saying due to either poor diet and massive drug/alcohol use, but never in the context that most of you are using.


I'm sure that those of us that worry about our future will look forward to old age as all the stuff we were so worried about has already happened.

I don't wanna die period. Or get old for that matter. :?

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I live for the present, so I don`t actually care about when I die.

i am SO glad that your relationship with the elderly has been satisfactory, but thats not always the case. those with cantankerous relatives seem to have negative feelings toward the aging process 'lol'. i come from a family where my elders/hags have fanatically obsessed over beauty, so its ingrained in my system that, for females, physically aging is an unfavorable thing. i'm on the same page as waar though. the first 40-50 years of my life will be exponentially more pleasurable than my latter years.

humans have been searching for ways to "look like your 17" for hundreds of years. the fountain of youth and the tree of life are a few examples. ponce de leon was totally "vain". my opinion is that physically aging is a side effect of growing old (READ: OVER 50), a despondent prospect in my eyes.

I'm perfectly fine with growing old but I have a complaint with it, I'm not looking forward to being frail and weak. It bugs me that someday I will have trouble doing most simple of the taskes =/