News Reporter Morley Safer Dies At 84

He didn't look to good on his last report on 60 Minutes several months ago and when I heard last week that he was retiring I knew something was up. He had a lot of stories on the show over the years but my all time favorite was on the Lamborghini Countach he did back in the 1980's.
 
Reba said:
It's too bad he didn't get to enjoy his retirement.
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He may not have wanted to retire but his health forced him to.

I had an aunt that had to retire (back in 1965 when companies could force retirement at a certain age). After a short amount of time she went to work several days a week for someone else because she did not like retirement NOT for financial reasons (I am sure given what she was doing when she had to retire).
 
No sense in speculating whether he wanted to retire or not... we don't know.

My father retired from his job but after a couple of years was bored so he did go back to work part time at two different jobs (one was the same as he had done before for 30 some years). Wasn't until they decided to move that both of them retired full time. They're still quite active in keeping themselves busy. They're living comfortably (not gonna discuss income :P). So it depends. I had a great-aunt who I THINK retired for a short time then went back to work until she was somewhere in her 80s...though I'm fuzzy on if she did eventually retire for good before her death.

Sad to see his passing though I hadn't seen much of Safer in the last few years.
 
DeafDucky said:
No sense in speculating whether he wanted to retire or not... we don't know.

My father retired from his job but after a couple of years was bored so he did go back to work part time at two different jobs (one was the same as he had done before for 30 some years). Wasn't until they decided to move that both of them retired full time. They're still quite active in keeping themselves busy. They're living comfortably (not gonna discuss income :P). So it depends. I had a great-aunt who I THINK retired for a short time then went back to work until she was somewhere in her 80s...though I'm fuzzy on if she did eventually retire for good before her death.

Sad to see his passing though I hadn't seen much of Safer in the last few years.
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Jane B. said:
He may not have wanted to retire but his health forced him to.

I had an aunt that had to retire (back in 1965 when companies could force retirement at a certain age). After a short amount of time she went to work several days a week for someone else because she did not like retirement NOT for financial reasons (I am sure given what she was doing when she had to retire).
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The aunt I referred to was working 3-4 days a week, assisting a cousin whom her parents (my grandparents) had raised, and driving in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma when she had the stroke that turned into her final illness a couple of months before her 85th birthday.
 
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