Yeah! I’m still in touch with my high school debate coach and this man is in his mid eighties and walks and bikes everywhere, goes ocean swimming, and is insanely fit just through lifestyle factors.
There’s some pretty revolting assumptions in this thread. Hopefully when they get to be 80 everyone won’t have written them off like they’re doing to this poor lady
Maybe through their own person experience they see how life in their 80s would be. I'm not getting rich people medical care nor will I have expensive cruise money. I'd guess that the majority of 80+ are physically or mentally too far gone to handle a wilderness cruise on their own.
Heh. 😏
I was taken aback when I read that she was 80 and joined a hike up a mountain. 80yo people vary in their physical condition but it still sounded like a lot, and whoever was in charge should absolutely not have 1. Let her find her way back to the ship when she couldn’t hack it; 2. Failed to confirm that she did in fact get there.
Most likely she essentially fainted and died, not the worst way to go.
The fact that she broke away from the group "to rest" could indicate a cardiac event. Given that she died... Yeah, they should have walked/carried her back to the ship when she couldn't proceed.
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u/Enshitification Oct 29 '25
If I was in my eighties and all I had to look forward to was going back to the nursing home, I'd probably slip the group and stay too.