With advances in medicine, it is likely that they will live into their eighties. Realizing that they will have to count pennies as the years creep by brings the problem home very sharply.
再想到醫藥發達，自己很可能長命八十，還有綿綿不盡的日子要過，那種「數饅頭」的感覺又更尖刻了。