I bet if you were in that situation you would reconsider. My wife was 36 when she got sick and there were many years of no symptoms and no side effects. And we packed a lot of living into those 22 yeas. The will to live is very strong and the spirit of survival is powerful. No need to just give up and die. But again, that's your choice.
Nocturnal cramps are very different. Bananas (potassium)help with daytime cramps but do not affect (AFAIK) nocturnal cramps whereas magnesium is what helps.
There was some drug that was making Tom live longer when he had liver cancer. He decided it was better to die than live with all the side effects. I would make the same choice.
Don't need a link because a good friend of mine had personal experience with this. He eats a lot at McDonald's, and recently came down with pancreatitis. He said it was the only thing he regularly ate that his wife never did, and she was healthy, so his pancreatitis had to be due to eating so much at McDonald's. He would never lie to me, and he's a very smart person. After all, you are what you eat!
Interestingly, there is an animal parallel for that. I once had a dog that was walking past a particular side table in the living room and yipped and jumped. Apparently, she had been bitten by a flea or something, but she never walked closely past that table again! You can test this using a shock collar. If you give the animal a favorite treat and shock it at the same time, it will never want that treat again. (This is called operant conditioning. It also works to associate good things with scary stuff like lightening.)
I know exactly how you feel.
Well then I guess it comes down to whether you are a fighter or not. Life is a precious thing and neither my wife nor I will go gently into the night.
I’m real close to 74 and my wife is 72. Both of us have vowed not to take any heroic measures to prolong our lives. Quality of life is important. If we were younger it would be different.
I have no clue what yesterday was all about, but today, I have all my energy back. Even more so than the day before yesterday.
I guess you must hate sleeping.
I'd recommend the insertion of "my life". It's a personal choice. You do you.I guess you must hate sleeping.
IMO, life is not precious if you're forcing yourself to stay alive to suffer.
-Don- Reno, NV
Agreed. I do not expect everybody to make the same choices I make.
We don’t want to spend what time we have left taking drugs that makes us sick and bedridden.
Since we all are talking 'bout "what if's" and "because's" and other ether things....
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No, I like to sleep. But when you get life threateningly sick at 36 you will fight with all your might to stay alive and achieve things that you thought not possible. She (and we) went on to do some incredible things in the last 22 years of her life. Built a national business, climbed the highest peak in the Canary Islands, saw the world. My wife even wrote an Amazon Best Seller. Not sure if we would have done those things if we knew we lazily had all the time in the world.I guess you must hate sleeping.
IMO, life is not precious if you're forcing yourself to stay alive to suffer.
-Don- Reno, NV
IMAO, it sounds cowardly to be afraid to die.
Which is what "the least important factor of age is the measurement of time" means. Some people are sick and bedridden as ten-year-old kids. Others are quite healthy at around 100 years of age.
Nothing was said about being afraid to die. But being afraid to fight for life is simply a pitiful existence.
