This just in...

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:34 am

The leading cause of death world wide is...

LIFE.

Seriously, even if you managed to live life in a perfect environment, ate all the right things, got the exact amount of exercise you need you might extend your life 15-20 years - and that's completely discounting genetic flaws. Why then do we worry so much about it?

The_Dude · Post by **The_Dude** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:01 am

Well, call me crazy be another 15-20 years is quite a big chunk of time...

deek · Post by **deek** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:02 am

Well, if that extra 15-20 years could have been spent in my early 20s then I'd be up for living life better...but they aren't. Those are an extra 15-20 years over 90 years old...bah...that's more like a prison:) I'll pass.

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:03 am

Because pharm companies stand to make a lot of money selling us the meds to do so.

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:40 am

I think Sankofa's partially right. I also think there's a natural tendency to want to extend our lives as long as possible.

HillgrassBluebillyFTW · Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:57 am

bassjones wrote:I think Sankofa's partially right. I also think there's a natural tendency to want to extend our lives as long as possible.

It's crazy that some people think death sucks.

=^-..-^= · Post by **=^-..-^=** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:54 am

One day I said to my dad, who is 86 and active, that he'll probably live to be 100; he replied,"Who the heck wants to do that?"

I guess it's not the amount of years in your life; it's the amount of life in your years, to quote an old cliche.

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:42 pm

Seventy tends to be "the beginning of the end". Sure, there are a few stalwarts who muddle through just fine, but at 70 for the most part, everything goes downhill.

Oh, and through my unscientific observation, guys who stop working and stay at home, within two years they are dead or really ill. My father in law knows this, and agrees with me. He quit working this year. Now he sits at home and putters around.

Krieves · Post by **Krieves** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:12 pm

I read that, statistically, you only have a 50/50 chance of dying. This is if you consider that, of all people every born, half are still alive.

deek · Post by **deek** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:05 pm

bwohlgemuth wrote:Seventy tends to be "the beginning of the end". Sure, there are a few stalwarts who muddle through just fine, but at 70 for the most part, everything goes downhill.

Oh, and through my unscientific observation, guys who stop working and stay at home, within two years they are dead or really ill. My father in law knows this, and agrees with me. He quit working this year. Now he sits at home and putters around.

That's why it is of utmost importance to have a retirement plan. And I don't mean just financial. When people spend most of their lives working every week, to just all of a sudden have nothing, no focus or goals, well, you go downhill really fast.

I know that if I were to "quit" working today, due to being financially set, I would have plenty of work to keep me busy, with hobbies and other projects. And because of that, barring any accidents, I am sure I will live quite a while, regardless of when I actually retire...

=^-..-^= · Post by **=^-..-^=** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:32 pm

deek wrote: That's why it is of utmost importance to have a retirement plan. And I don't mean just financial. When people spend most of their lives working every week, to just all of a sudden have nothing, no focus or goals, well, you go downhill really fast.

I know that if I were to "quit" working today, due to being financially set, I would have plenty of work to keep me busy, with hobbies and other projects. And because of that, barring any accidents, I am sure I will live quite a while, regardless of when I actually retire...

Yeah. as a skool teecher, I get a miniature version of retirement every Summer break. I have to have a definite plan of what I'm going to fill that time with, or I will putter those 3 months away and have nothing to show for it. It is really tempting to just sit around, and that's good for the first couple weeks; then There has to be a project.

HillgrassBluebillyFTW · Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:46 pm

=^-..-^= wrote:...as a skool teecher...

irony?

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:23 pm

I plan on playing music full time once I retire from actual work

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:05 pm

On what, the Love Boat?

=^-..-^= · Post by **=^-..-^=** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:12 pm

anderson wrote:
=^-..-^= wrote:...as a skool teecher...
irony?

No need to irony, I wear permanent pressy!