Being healthy is just dying at the slowest possible rate.
Posted Feb 6, 2019, 7:21 PM UTC
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I know I'm shaving 20 years off ma life, but it's the shittiest ones at tha end
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Exactly. Why suffer
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That's not really how it works. If you live unhealthy such that you die at f.ex. 70 instead of 90 you are not just snipping of the last 20 years. You are using up your health faster such that the time you are alive your health and thus quality of life will overall be worse. F.ex. an unhealthy 40 year old feels like a healthy 51 year old. An unhealthy 60 year old feels like a healthy 77 year old, etc. So it's not like you have "tricked" the system in any way. Well, unless you are unhappy and just want it at all to be over as soon as possible.
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“How’s life?” “Taking forever.”
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Focus isn't on dying but but more avoiding the indignity of having to use one of those electric carts to go grocery shopping only to have the battery die mid trip and be awkwardly ignored.
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It's not just not dying.
I have seen this mentality in people throughout the years. The pack-a-day smokers who say "I'll just die ten years younger. Who wants to be 80 and eat through a straw?"
Problem is, the things that take years off your life also severely reduce your quality of life much earlier. Instead of thinking of it as dying at 70 instead of 80, think of it as still being able to walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded when you're 55.
It's not just dying as slowly as possible. It's also reducing earlier morbidity.
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Thank you! So many people are not thinking this through at all.
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And being able to (potentially more fully) enjoy the time before dying
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potentially is the key here.
severe depression, cancer, or someone just hitting you in a car and you take like 3 weeks of agony to die can all make that 'enjoyment' idea kinda wasted.
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Well then I say fuck exercising and screw these veggies.
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That's not all. You don't have to spend your last time in a hospital coughing like an engine.
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I think the chance of that happening increases if you live unhealthy.
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Yeah, but it also makes you feel better in the meantime.
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I'll take it!
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Until you get hit by a truck.
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Slow rate xp mmo
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Cannot remember the name of the comedian who said this ages ago, but it went something along the lines of “Being fit and healthy all the time is just a waste. Years from now, you’re going to feel pretty stupid, lying in bed and dying of nothing.”
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Sounds like a Dylan Moran kind of thing
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Soo, I will just be unhealthy and die earlier? That doesn't make sense to me. I would feel more stupid if I die og a heart attack at 60.
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Love this!
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Allegedly
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I think that you are only dying slowly when more cells on your body are dying than being made
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Damn telomeres
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why can't they just kill me now, fuck the whole slow decline into feebleness.
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It's ok, I'm not in a hurry.
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What if life isn’t actually real. Like that rick and morty episode where morty is at blip and chips. How is it I can’t remember back 1000 years. It’s just a brief existence and I can’t remember anything before. I refuse to believe this is it. When we die, we will just be at blips and chips with rick
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me, i'm like the exact opposite. to me, its fucking weird we exist as consciousness at all. like, it's a good spot and time for it, in a universal scope, most other places and times really wouldn't support life and all that too well, but even then, you didn't exist for like all of time till a few years ago, then you're here for a blip then gone. with no rhyme or reason aside from your parents fucked.
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The longest suicide
In the west
Does that mean that being murdered is just a failed suicide attempt?
nah, means someone got off their ass and did your work for you, because you were taking too long to get it done, or were doing it too ineffectually.