Not fair! Betty White should have made it to 100!!!! She earned it and was looking forward to it.

[Fla Dem]

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[XanaDUer2]

1. Sad nt

[jimfields33]

4. Sad? 99 years is a gift!

An extremely small minority get to that age. Now she’s with her husband. At least, she believed she’d be with him.

[XanaDUer2]

8. Sad she didn't get to celebrate her 100 with People

Of course 99 is a gift

[peacefreak2.0]

2. Always leave them wanting more.

That she did.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. I believe that those who remain are more upset than Betty White

Assuming the existence of an afterlife, that is. I cannot fathom that those who have moved on lamenting not making it to an arbitrary milestone. We’re saddened and disappointed, but I expect Betty White is not fretting over it.

[Fla Dem]

5. She was enthusiastically looking forward to reaching her centennial birthday.

As neither of us knows for sure if there is an afterlife who can say what she may or may not be fretting over. I don't believe I implied she was. Also reaching one's 100th birthday is not an "arbitrary" milestone. It is a factual point in time in the life of a person who lives that long.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. Regardless of whether or not there is an afterlife

I don’t believe that Betty White is upset over missing her 100th birthday by a couple of weeks. A lifetime of achievements shot to hell due to missing a milestone by a matter of days? Please.

[Fla Dem]

9. If you had read my initial post and my response to your comments.....

I never said Betty White was fretting or upset at dying before she reached her 100th birthday on January 17th. I, and many of her fans, are very sad at her passing AND disappointed she did not live to celebrate her 100th birthday which she was looking forward to.

Don't make mountains out of mole hills.

[EYESORE 9001]

10. Same to you

Happy new year.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

6. One of my English great-grandfathers lived to be 99.

He was annoyed when he realized that he wouldn't make it to 100, since he was looking forward to a congratulatory telegram from King Edward VII. It is still the custom for the King or Queen to send congratulations to people on their 100th birthday.

[Fla Dem]

12. What a shame. To live that long and not reach the goal.

But cheers to him for a long life.

[Earth-shine]

11. My mother-in-law recently died of natural causes at 99.8 years.

My wife says, "She said for so many years, she didn't want to live to 100."

[Fla Dem]

13. LOL, well to each their own. She got her wish, didn't she.

[Earth-shine]

14. I said, "When she turns 99, she'll think differently about dying by 100." I was wrong.

There wasn't much left of her to survive to 100. She welcomed it.