. said:

I hope you have spent your declining years focusing on what's important: amassing a stereo of epic proportions.

Incidentally, I call his stereo.

. said:

You had a hart attack in your 30s? Wtf have you been eating?

. said:

Would you take a gently used iPod doc?

. said:

I had a bad heart attack and my heart is still very weak and vulnerable.

Let me just say the range of my concerns has dramatically narrowed. Most of the things I agonized over - sometimes for YEARS - mean fuck-all to me now. What matters is not dying on the kitchen floor gasping for breath just because I stood up and went to get a glass of grapefruit juice.

I'm in my late 30s kids and let me tell you, all this shit you/we agonize about on this board - ALL OF IT -- doesn't mean SHIT. The politics, the sex, the money and status concerns - when it really comes down to the wire, success or failure, rich or poor: YOU REALLY WILL NOT GIVE A SHIT IN THE SLIGHTEST.

Do something with your life while you still can because you don't realize how close to the end you could be.

That's all fuckers.

Carry on.
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Fixed for accuracy.

. said:

You had a hart attack in your 30s? Wtf have you been eating?

. said:

So I guess you didn't get laid last night?

q said:

The OP could very well be telling the truth. I know a guy who was 32 when he had to have a quadruple heart bypass. The dude used to be as strong as an ox, and he ate pretty well - never saw him order anything too unreasonable. Its just a question of genetics. He went from Superman to Clark Kent overnight.

Its almost a decade later, and he's still weak as a kitten.

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You get to be 50 and they'll start dropping.

The worst seem to be people who get on the cancer train. It usually goes like this.

1) Diagnosis
2) Months of painful drugs, removal of lung or whatever, physician induced pain with moments of feeling OK now and then.
3) Die anyway.

I'm not convinced that doing a thing about it makes any difference.

. said:

You get to be 50 and they'll start dropping.

. said:

I had a bad heart attack and my heart is still very weak and vulnerable.

Let me just say the range of my concerns has dramatically narrowed. Most of the things I agonized over - sometimes for YEARS - mean fuck-all to me now. What matters is not dying on the kitchen floor gasping for breath just because I stood up and went to get a glass of grapefruit juice.

I'm in my late 30s kids and let me tell you, all this shit you/we agonize about on this board - ALL OF IT -- doesn't mean SHIT. The politics, the sex, the money and status concerns - when it really comes down to the wire, success or failure, rich or poor: YOU REALLY WILL NOT GIVE A SHIT IN THE SLIGHTEST.

Do something with your life while you still can because you don't realize how close to the end you could be.

That's all fuckers.

Carry on.
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. said:

Statistics would show you what a fool you are. Many formerly deadly cancers now have excellent cure rates.

But yeah, when they start chopping out large pieces of you, you're fucked.

Tao_Chemical said:

Maybe you should stop drinking grapefruit juice.
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Not a fool, it's just that I don't entirely trust the medical community. There's a whole lotta money to be made torturing patients for a few months.

The low hanging fruit in 'cures' (or at least putting off the inevitable) are a different matter.

I've read that in the last 100 years, only 5 years of increased life expectancy can be laid at the door of modern medicine, diet, etc.. The other 20 or so years are due to cleaner water and waste disposal. Funny thing.