How would posters feel if it was their Mother (that they loved) who decided to do this at 80+ years   I wouldn't want my mother to do this.

so you would want your mother to hang around, even though she was miserable being here, just to satisfy your own needs and wants?

I'm with Margo! Get out while the going is good. And I don't think that it should be restricted to only the elderly.

There comes a time in some people's lives where they've done all they want to do, have filled their responsibilities such as making sure their kids and partner are settled and established etc. It just gets so exhausting trying to find things to do other than the daily melancholy conundrums of life. How long is a person expected to keep trying to find opportunities to really live? How long is a person expected to find new experiences? and how damn long is a person expected to go on living in a crazy epistemologically mixed up world that they neither like or understand?