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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you could be dead of cancer by 65.
Just keep trying to stay mobile and hope for the best. There are literally no guarantees. [/quote]

It is absolutely mind-blowing to me how many people here expect to be in control of their health outcomes in late life.[/quote]

Yes. MS, ALS, cancers, other autoimmune diseases, accidents, etc can disrupt the best laid plans to live to 95.[/quote]

The original post is about health-span, not life span. We have some salty people in here convinced it’s impossible not to just crash land at some point. That’s just not true. Outside a list such as the above, most Americans age poorly because of their life choices. That’s the reality.

So, as the further above post. Do the best you can and hope for the best. Not, I’m going to drink a handle of Jack and not move because F it. [/quote]

Nobody who doesn’t have an alcohol use disorder is drinking a handle of Jack. No one who isn’t experiencing some other health problem (including depression) is going to “not move because F it.”

People who are enjoying life take care of it. People who are not enjoying life do not.

There is no morality to that, or to being healthy vs sick. If anything, judgment is due to our society as a whole, for its propensity to call some “causes” of illness “life choices” and others—the ones YOU might approve—“terrible twists of fate”.

OP, if your parents are happy doing what they are doing, your distress is yours to manage.[/quote]

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