On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 01:25:07 -0500, Olrik <olrik666@yahoo_BACON!_.com>
wrote:

raven1 wrote:

On 09 Jan 2005 00:31:03 GMT,

After 40 years of life, and 36 of them not believing in a god, I have made a
deduction if you folow gods rule you die young, if you drink and smoke and have
fun you die old.

My aunt, who died of liver failure, and two of my uncles, who died of
lung cancer, might beg to differ with that assessment...

Well, we all die eventually. Yours could be a sob story if they all died
in their fifties or thereabout. But past seventy, who cares about the
cause of death?

There's also the idea that there are more and less pleasant ways to go
that comes into play (as the saying goes, "I want to die peacefully in
my sleep, like Grandpa, not wide awake and screaming, like his
passengers"). Liver failure and lung cancer are two of the more grisly
and painful ways for one to die. Not to mention prolonged. In the case
of my family members, they were directly attributable to alcohol
abuse, and smoking, respectively. Neither one is a particularly good
idea, and both will almost certainly adversely impact your health.

BTW, my father died at 38 of a heart attack. He did not smoke and drank
normaly. My mother, OTOH, is nearing 80 and is in perfect health, and
she still smokes and drinks. As always, YMMV.

Agreed. Andy Kaufman, a non-smoking health food advocate, died at 35
of lung cancer, but he, like your mother, is the exception, not the
rule.