Live a healthy life and die gracefully

I get sick easily, so I try to live a healthy life as much as my big appetite allows. You know what the doctors say: eat more fruit and veggies, less red meat, and exercise regularly. Now, even though I’m doing all that in my quest for a healthy and fit body, I fully realize that it will not prevent me from dying. I don’t understand the scientists with their study on dying. I can appreciate when they are trying to comprehend the mechanism of a disease and as a result devise the treatment and hopefully the cure. But the cure of dying??

Humans are mortals, period. As much as it is hard to accept, we will all die. What matters is how do you want to die? Do you want to die of diabetes? Heart attack? Or just dying in your sleep? Take your pick.

I think that’s the point of a healthy life. Instead of spending the last 10 years of our life being incapacitated, or worse, in a vegetative state, because of a stroke, we could wean ourself from all those meaty oily dishes and start eating more greens. And hopefully, we’d die gracefully.

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