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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 70 and I agree with your mom. I run the dogs, muck out the stables, and ride my horse 6 days a week and I will do a swan dive off a cliff into the ocean before I'll go to a nursing home.[/quote] Is this me posting from the future? I’m only 48 and in good health, but I’ve already got my plan. When my quality of life starts to deteriorate, I’m going to get really drunk during a cold snap and pass out on the porch. Old people are at high risk of death from exposure and hypothermia. [b] Hypothermia-Related Deaths — Wisconsin, 2014, and United States, 2003–2013 Jon Merman, MD, Henry Anderson, MD, and Carrie Tomasallo, PhD[/b] [quote] Older persons have impaired heat generation and often multiple comorbidities that increase the risk for death (3). Substance and alcohol abuse can contribute to hypothermia by blunting physiologic responses to cold and can lead to prolonged exposure caused by impaired judgment.[/quote][/quote]
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