Smitty Two wrote:

In article .com,
"Eddge" wrote:


@"advancements." (I use the term skeptically
because I really believe we'd be better off as hunter-gatherers living
in straw huts.)

Surely you jest. How old are you? If x approx. 20, you would likely
be dead by now in such a culture. Not to mention, when x 70, your
descendants would kill you to have one less mouth to feed.


No, I'm not jesting, and without modern surgery I would have died forty
years ago, at the age of 11. That is, if hunter-gatherers played
football during lunch break at school.

On the other end of the scale, when I get too old to take care of
myself, I'm done with this silly planet, anyway. I had enough of diapers
and spoon feeding when I was a baby.

Lifespan and quality of life are completely unrelated, and most of what
passes for "quality of life" these days is nonsense, in my arrogant
opinion.

A friend of mine who smokes, when told by someone else that smoking
would shorten his life by ten years, retorted that those would be
the ten years that the other fellow would spend in the alzheimers
ward in the nursing home.

Don W.