• 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Okay, but who wants to live a long life these days?

    What a foolish question. You sound young.

    I’m 50. I’ve had six heart attacks, a below knee amputation, and I’m on dialysis after my kidneys failed. Life is not easy, and yet I still wish it to go on. I am probably going to die within a decade, and I hate that. I should have 2-3 more, dammit.

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      11 hours ago

      Also the years you lose/gain don’t come from the end, they come from wherever you are now. If you’re 30 and start exercising you feel better and younger longer in addition to living longer, the inverse if you decide to start smoking.