Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds

Re:Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart dis... by analognoise on Saturday October 20, 2018 @08:27PM (#18266206)

>If you get old with no exercise and deteriorating health, it's gonna fall upon your family to take care and worry a lot about you.

No it isn't, just off yourself when you feel like the time is right. I don't get why everyone wants to stretch these years out until the bitter end and would rather end up in a home than just taking a nice walk one day and not coming back.

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Re:Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart dis... by graeme on Saturday October 20, 2018 @09:20PM (#18266326)

I suspect this plan might be rather upsetting to friends and family.

Further, I suspect you wouldn't actually do this. And then you're a terrible burden to others.

The Lotus Eater by Maugham is a good read on this theme: http://facultyweb.wcjc.edu/users/jonl/documents/LotusEater.p...

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Re:Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart dis... by themagician on Saturday October 20, 2018 @08:45PM (#18266246)

I agree with you 100%. I think I’ll just get more reckless as I get older and start to deteriorate. Pick up activities with a higher probability of death. I’d rather die skydiving or in a sailing accident than from chemo.

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