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Originally Posted by flatbutt
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To quote my former boss, he "took early retirement" at age 92. He retired from the FAA with a three digit employee number and started there when it was a CAA. He was a pilot, and loved flying himself on aerial photography missions. He loved do that until the day he turn 90, and no insurance company on the planet would insure him to work as a a commercial pilot. It is required to be a commercial pilot to make a living, flying and taking pictures. All his fun was gone, and he started looked for a buyer of the company and that took two years to find the right folks. He took his last flight in his airplane as pilot in command on his 92nd birthday, parked it in the hangar, and put it up for sale.
He was super sharp mentally, and did not use a cane and the only medication he took was one baby aspirin per day, and some vitamins.
At age 99, he kissed his wife goodnight, and walked upstairs to go to bed. She finished some move and went upstairs and found him dead. No nursing homes, no long hospital stay, sharp as a tack until the end. For him, owning the business, he said several times he could just lock the door and close up whenever he wanted. He kept the business open to give us jobs.