How not to die !

[All uphill]

9. Choose your parents carefully.

 

[Drago]

Just a very morbid observation - in my early 60s and sadly some of friends and colleagues haven't made it this far. Looking at the common denominators in a completely unscientific way this is what I think:-

1.) Smokers - predictable but it's a sure fire way of significantly shortening your life.

2.) Deprivation. Those people who live in less desirable areas seemed to be disproportionately represented amongst my friends who haven't made it this far.


Happy Friday all !

10) Shovelling snow. If you're 50 or above leave it to the Missus.

11) Accepting an invitation from Noel Edmonds to go bungee jumping.

12) Share a cell with Bronson and fail to stand for the national anthem.

13) Upset Donald Trump if you have a remotely swarthy complexion.

14) Wear an "I ❤️ Keir" T shirt to any pub in Oxfordshire.

15) Take a job flying supplies of diet coke and porn stars the the White House in a Blackhawk.

16) Accept a lift to a Barmitzvah from Tommy Robinson.

17) Go clean shaven in Kabul.

 

[Beebo]

Being a professional wingsuit flyer seems to be very life limiting.
Not many of them seem to live much more than a few years.

 

[kingrollo]

Being a professional wingsuit flyer seems to be very life limiting.
Not many of them seem to live much more than a few years.

Endorsing a fancy cycling gadget on cyclechat !

 

[vickster]

9. Choose your parents carefully.

Being born with XX chromosomes gives better odds on life expectancy 👍🏻

 

[MontyVeda]

... I endure the exhaust fumes of so many vehicles but no mention is given of that pollution.
...

That's changing. In 2020, a coroner ruled that air pollution was a significant factor in a child's fatal asthma attack (link).

 

[presta]

I've smoked since I was 13years old and now I'm 63, I know fellas in their 80's who still have a fag.

There's a well-known correlation between poverty and life expectancy.

Actually, morbidity and mortality also correlate with status quite independently of wealth. Status really matters, which is why people compete for it, but the problems are that it's a zero-sum game, and it's also at the root of climate change and other damage to the environment. The real sustainable solution to environmental damage is finding an alternative to consumption as a means competing for status, and the solution to the zero sum game is less inequality. Societies with lower levels of inequality have lower levels of most of the common social ills. (Note that the countries that perform best are not communist!)

 

[PaulSB]

The more startling revaluation for me was the people who live in poor housing who meet an early demise

It's a very well known fact that poverty, hence poor housing, is a major killer. It's a very sad fact, a disgrace to our society, that those born into poverty have a very poor future ahead of them including low life expectancy. Quite simply one can look around and see the kids who will enjoy a good life and those with little, if any, chance of a decent life.

I'm quite startled this has passed you by till age 63.

 

[Sharky]

Rumour has it, that ....

Didn't slow him down!!!

 

[kingrollo]

It's a very well known fact that poverty, hence poor housing, is a major killer. It's a very sad fact, a disgrace to our society, that those born into poverty have a very poor future ahead of them including low life expectancy. Quite simply one can look around and see the kids who will enjoy a good life and those with little, if any, chance of a decent life.

I'm quite startled this has passed you by till age 63.

1.) I'm not 63

2.) I wouldn't say it passed me by. But a few people popping off early has highlighted the stark reality of it.

 

[Marchrider]

I do know a 40 a day smoker who's exceptionally fit and well into his 80s.

But I would say that's very much the exception.

The more startling revaluation for me was the people who live in poor housing who meet an early demise

40 a day, that would be £13,500 a year ? - I would die of heart failure

 

[MontyVeda]

40 a day, that would be £13,500 a year ? - I would die of heart failure

Crazy isn't it... about double a mortgage?

 

[DaveReading]

I do know a 40 a day smoker who's exceptionally fit and well into his 80s.

But I would say that's very much the exception.

As indeed was an uncle of mine who had never smoked in his life and died of lung cancer in his 30s ...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How hard does the tobacco industry work to reduce consumption?

How hard does the motoring industry work to do the same?. There’s been a constant upward trend in the number of motorised vehicles on the road. I doubt they’ve reduced emissions.

 

[tyred]

It is approximately twelve years since I smoked my last cigarette. I haven't done much right in life, but that was the one thing I did get right.

I have saved thousands which has allowed me to buy my own home. Life as a non-smoker is so much more enjoyable than that of a smoker in ever way.

I visited a family friend in hospital just before Christmas who had just been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer at 61, and it is not a nice way to end your life. My 72 year old uncle was a heavy smoker and over the past ten years has had several heart attacks, has COPD, endless chest infections and is hopelessly out of breath just walking around the kitchen.