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Originally Posted by Sliver
That's fair. Basically everyone I know who gets sick and/or dies does so from totally unforeseen and unpredictable things, though. This observation has really changed how I approach health and my worries. There's so much unpredictability for this stuff. It would be awesome if you cut out a can or two of Coke Zero a day and that would result in a meaningful change in your future health or whatever, but I completely doubt it'll matter.
Think of it this way: you are going to die no matter what. It's coming for you. Obviously I'm not going to start doing heroin and smoking as if nothing matters, but I'm also not bothering sweating a bunch of stuff I used to worry more about. I didn't even start drinking Diet Coke until I was 40. Like...I only drank water and then beer when I'd go out. Then as I started seeing people like aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. dying I noticed nobody died from "the thing" that everyone thought would get them. It was always an unpredictable left field thing that got 'em.
Aside from those obvious things like hard drugs, smoking cigarettes, no exercise, alcoholism, obesity, etc., death and disease is an inevitability you cannot head off.
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I take your point. However, watching my mother, her mother and father all struggle with dementia, I would rather get hit by a bus than exist like that. But using the same logic as you, I may not get 'struck by lightning', and I would rather be able to interact with the world around me, waiting for my demise when a study says a 300% increase in the likelihood of getting it, that makes it a little harder to yell YOLO and drive my rascal off a cliff.
(Which, now that I think about it, is a bad-ass way to check out if the big D does show up.)