Benefits of Always Taking Care of Yourself at Young Age

[Dibbons]

I'd rather die young.

 

[zyzzyx]

Yeah, Ain't that the truth!

 

[MoparDanMan]

I'd rather die young.

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Really? No life is better than old life? I disagree.

 

[Sahara]

The Black Sabbath song “Die Young”. Great song.
Ronnie James Dio on vocals.
He died young of cancer.
There’s many videos of him on YouTube singing the song, while he was visibly sick with the cancer that killed him. He really pounds out the part “so live for today, tomorrow may never come. Die young.”
I worked in the oil patch for years, breathed in enough asbestos that I probably can’t be cremated. Absorbed so many toxic chemicals that I would sweat them out. Smoked for twenty years. I was young, invincible. We all were.
Now at sixty I’m scared. I don’t want to die young. But if I do I’m gonna try and go out with dignity. That’s the only part of this that I still have control over.

 

[WileE]

I recall being told years ago, that alcohol was a good liquid cleaner. I therefore started cleansing my insides since then. { burp... bartender, I'll have another .... }

 

[Cojohnso1]

There is a little bit of truth that "Beer drinkers live longer?" Being beer "In light moderation" is a natural blood thinner. Thus easier on the heart. The problem? Is the "Light moderation?" It turns out they mean "LIGHT" And my other vice needs can't seem to understand sometimes?

 

[MoparDanMan]

There is a little bit of truth that "Beer drinkers live longer?" Being beer "In light moderation" is a natural blood thinner. Thus easier on the heart. The problem? Is the "Light moderation?" It turns out they mean "LIGHT" And my other vice needs can't seem to understand sometimes?

I like a beer or 12.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Ozzy Ozbourne.
Keith Richards.
David Lee Roth.
Vince Neil.

...just some examples of "pre-embalming" making rock stars live forever

I've been dead. Seriously - 2008, died six times (officially coded) from an accident - in the ditch, on the chopper, and on the table. The chief surgeon told me a year later "everyone in that O.R. figured you were going to leave in a bag". I'm glad I'm still here. I still live pretty hard, exercise a lot, try to take care of myself...but I may still go out at 100 miles an hour with my hair on fire when the time comes.

Just because.

 

[steve from staten island]

The Black Sabbath song “Die Young”. Great song.
Ronnie James Dio on vocals.
He died young of cancer.
There’s many videos of him on YouTube singing the song, while he was visibly sick with the cancer that killed him. He really pounds out the part “so live for today, tomorrow may never come. Die young.”
I worked in the oil patch for years, breathed in enough asbestos that I probably can’t be cremated. Absorbed so many toxic chemicals that I would sweat them out. Smoked for twenty years. I was young, invincible. We all were.
Now at sixty I’m scared. I don’t want to die young. But if I do I’m gonna try and go out with dignity. That’s the only part of this that I still have control over.

You and I have a lot in common with working conditions especially the asbestos. While I didn't ever smoke tobacco i have been welding 40 plus years.
If I woke up tomorrow and discovered I had some asbestos related diseases, it wouldn't be a surprise
But figure this one out, my wife never was exposed to anything except the lousy air where she grew up. She never did the things we did as youngsters like playing with mercury or washing greasy hands with leaded gasoline, laster on years working in industrial environments with no PPE
And yet she's the one whose body has a incurable cancer.
What I think your maybe forgetting is how you live and were you live, you breath cleaner air, eat a lot of what you hunt, grow and you work hard
My opinion is you keep doing what you do and don't worry as your going to be dancing at your grandchildren weddings and than some

 

[Nevada dan]

when my dad was 14 my grandma died of cancer that when my granpa started drinking , just drink whiskey, vodka and beer and smoke cigarettes from early morning till night maybe a piece of toast once a day , lived into his 90's, they put him in a hospital and wouldn't let him drink anymore and he died a month later , his kidneys gave up when they dried him out, should have let him die happy at home

 

[Sahara]

You and I have a lot in common with working conditions especially the asbestos. While I didn't ever smoke tobacco i have been welding 40 plus years.
If I woke up tomorrow and discovered I had some asbestos related diseases, it wouldn't be a surprise
But figure this one out, my wife never was exposed to anything except the lousy air where she grew up. She never did the things we did as youngsters like playing with mercury or washing greasy hands with leaded gasoline, laster on years working in industrial environments with no PPE
And yet she's the one whose body has a incurable cancer.
What I think your maybe forgetting is how you live and were you live, you breath cleaner air, eat a lot of what you hunt, grow and you work hard
My opinion is you keep doing what you do and don't worry as your going to be dancing at your grandchildren weddings and than some

Great to hear from you Steve, I was thinking of you folks just the other day and was about to PM to see how you are making out. Our wives are quite similar in their lives, as well.
My wife was the straight arrow of her family. Never smoked, drank, or did anything that would expose her to toxic stuff. She worked her entire career of 35+ years in front line health care, exposed to body fluids and tissues, but not cancer stuff. At 55 in 2017 she was diagnosed with stage three cancer. So far they appear to have cleaned it up, but it still looms over her and our heads like an axe.
But here’s an interesting thing to look up: in the seventies a Russian nuclear satellite crashed up here, covered the entire area with pepper sized flakes of radioactive debris. Cosmos 954. You can google it, it was a huge deal.
I’ll never forget it. Anyway, when I was young everyone died of heart disease or accident. Now everyone dies of cancer.

 

[steve from staten island]

Great to hear from you Steve, I was thinking of you folks just the other day and was about to PM to see how you are making out. Our wives are quite similar in their lives, as well.
My wife was the straight arrow of her family. Never smoked, drank, or did anything that would expose her to toxic stuff. She worked her entire career of 35+ years in front line health care, exposed to body fluids and tissues, but not cancer stuff. At 55 in 2017 she was diagnosed with stage three cancer. So far they appear to have cleaned it up, but it still looms over her and our heads like an axe.
But here’s an interesting thing to look up: in the seventies a Russian nuclear satellite crashed up here, covered the entire area with pepper sized flakes of radioactive debris. Cosmos 954. You can google it, it was a huge deal.
I’ll never forget it. Anyway, when I was young everyone died of heart disease or accident. Now everyone dies of cancer.

Great to hear from you as well.
We can relate to how you've described it as a axe hanging over your head concerning cancer. Were unfortunately going through this right now as there may be a problem requiring some sort of action that may involve another surgery or some type of radiation
It scares me when i read about the fallout from that crash of that Russian satellite up in your area, I can't help but wonder how many people got sick as a result.
Be well and again good to hear from you

 

[Charger Dana]

Really? No life is better than old life? I disagree.

While I generally agree with you, I’d invite you to come with me and visit with my father-in-law with Alzheimer’s. The one place he did not want to end up. Or my friend with ALS, who spent the last 5 years of her life (48) flat in a bed unable to move, talk, or eat.

I wouldn’t want to put my family in that position, so sometimes no life is the better option.

but now more about what we love- CARS!! Spring is here and I am not in a home (yet!)!