[quote]as we are getting older any new animals wíll outlíve us

Pen,

Somehow I doubt that.  If there was any couple to be voted "Most Likely To Ascend "...it'd be you and Shaman  :D

 Yep...post 2012, all of us here wíll be able to say. Wow, we knew them back when.

Raf

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." ~ Richard Bach