I'm just wondering.
What sort of pain- and anxiety-free death have you reserved for yourself?
Are you sure you've covered all the bases?
No "inappropriate" eating behaviors or anything that will deny you immortality?
No risk-taking of any kind?
Have you been witness to any deaths due to respiratory failure by people who've run around plugging all the "health" holes their whole lives and died anyway?
What is your point?
That the minute we're born we should spend our whole lives worrying about dying?
Certainly you can't be aware of just what sort of deaths I have witnessed during the course of my life.
I've seen a bunch of it though. Slow deaths, quick deaths...In the end....death is death....
I have to say that if I have a death to choose, it would not be one that is caused by foolish choices that result in what might seem like endless suffering. Most COPDers do not go out easy, and I have yet to meet one who wishes that they could have one more smoke before they croak. They are probably out there, but none have come under my radar yet.
I agree with you.....I think. Risk taking is a good thing. I do not think that bungee jumping, or jumping out of a perfectly good working airplane is bright unless it is for some greater cause such as the the preservation of one's own life, or the lives of others. Many of the risks that we take are without merit, yet we all do it from time to time it seems to me.
Dialogue about this stuff is actually good food for thought.
"Have you been witness to any deaths due to respiratory failure by people who've run around plugging all the "health" holes their whole lives and died anyway?"
I think no, but I couldn't talk about it anyway if I had.
I don't understand a lot of things. One of things that I have never understood even a little bit is why people would light a flame to a dead plant, and then inhale the smoke that results from it. That one I never understood, even from when I was about 9 years old and all of my friends and my family were doing it.
You can debate the merits of smoking with that particular 9 year old in some other reality.
I've done a lot of stupid things in my life, but smoking cigarettes is not one of them. Defending the smoking of cigarettes is another dumb thing that I have also never done in my life.
On the other hand. I have never been a smoking Nazi, and if people want to do dumb shit, then I say it is OK as long as it don't hurt me. If smoking in a restaurant for example bothered me, I simply would not patronize that restaurant. I don't need my government to compel restaurants to ban smoking.