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If you're working till your in your 80s because you're afraid to die if you don't, I think I'd rather just die.
I'm not sure working is necessarily the answer, but I've seen a lot of folks go downhill when they weren't working simply because of a lack of structure in their lives. Some sit on the couch and do nothing. Some get depressed. Others drink or do drugs.
I am convinced that life expectancy is more dependent on genetics than any other factor. We are preprogramed and when its your time to go, its your time to go. All the green smoothies and treadmill time in the universe isn't going to change it.
So it doesn't matter if you weigh 350 pounds, smoke two packs a day, and drink a quart of vodka a day?
You're convinced that you're still going to die on whatever "preprogrammed" date your genetics has determined for you?
So it doesn't matter if you weigh 350 pounds, smoke two packs a day, and drink a quart of vodka a day?
You're convinced that you're still going to die on whatever "preprogrammed" date your genetics has determined for you?
LOL
Good behavior moves the needle in your favor. Bad behavior moves it toward death. It's all about the odds. Even if they seem to be in your favor, you can still come up snake eyes.
This reminds me of a guy I knew, ran miles and miles every day, ate healthy, never smoked or drank alcohol, he had zero body fat, his blood pressure was perfect. At 34 he dropped dead of a heart attack. No warning just bam and gone.
Like I said, when your numbers up, it's up.
Now am I going to drink bacon grease and smoke a carton of cigarettes a day? No, but I'm not going to go crazy dwelling over the inevitable either.
We moved from living a few years in a town with lots of obituaries for people who had died in their 90s and up, to one with what looks like lower age at death.
However, this is a rural, agricultural area. Accidents and occuational hazards play a role in life span, as well as a seeming flight of medical providers from the area.
For us, the deciding factor was that we did not want to live unhappily to ANY age in our previous location. We saw too many embittered old folks sticking it out there and left while we were still motivated and strong enough to handle another long-distance move with us doing the heavy lifting and transportation.
We have always lived a clean, straight life and intend to continue doing so. What genetics and chance throw at us, we cannot control.
We moved from living a few years in a town with lots of obituaries for people who had died in their 90s and up, to one with what looks like lower age at death.
However, this is a rural, agricultural area. Accidents and occuational hazards play a role in life span, as well as a seeming flight of medical providers from the area.
For us, the deciding factor was that we did not want to live unhappily to ANY age in our previous location. We saw too many embittered old folks sticking it out there and left while we were still motivated and strong enough to handle another long-distance move with us doing the heavy lifting and transportation.
We have always lived a clean, straight life and intend to continue doing so. What genetics and chance throw at us, we cannot control.
That's how I see it as well. You can move to Japan which has one of the longest life expectancy in the world and you'll still probably die at the same age you would have in small town Nebraska.
That's how I see it as well. You can move to Japan which has one of the longest life expectancy in the world and you'll still probably die at the same age you would have in small town Nebraska.
Right, because you didn't spend your life in Japan, eating the foods they eat, exercising the way they do, breathing the clean air they do, having the same attitudes they do, responding to stress the way they do, etc.
I moved to VT 4+ years ago. I see an awful lot of people in their 80s and 90s still in very good physical shape. They still walk long distances (and much of it uphill), spend time outdoors, some are still biking and hiking. I think a lot has to do with the clean air, the exercise one gets throughout their lives, a lot of outdoor time (lots of skiing, hiking and biking here), and living in a stress-free (no traffic) beautiful place.
If you're working till your in your 80s because you're afraid to die if you don't, I think I'd rather just die.
I am pretty sure if i don't work until 80's, I could die too.
From those same things mentioned.
I do better working, with structure of having to be somewhere.
At least part time
But that certainly doesn't mean
"I'd rather just die"
That's quite extreme
you likely don't mean that
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