Not forwarding chain letters.

Skin cancer (I'm a ginger) or liver failure (alcohol, fat).

I'm sexy and I know it.

Just like I was born - screaming, naked, covered in blood, and between a woman's legs.

All accidents.

Boredom.

so we aren't winning that war on cancer eh? time to put my money into something that is actually getting results... heart disease.

from everything.

Alone

Yeah, when cancer (i.e. old age) and accidents both make the top 5 causes of death in your nation, it's time to take a moment to relax, sit back, and contemplate the sheer quantity of blow-jobs that you owe science. And maybe take another moment to give a nice firm middle finger to all the monotheistic religions and Hinduism/Buddhism.

//Animism, Confucianism, and ancestor-worship are still cool, though, they've never particularly tried to kill off empirical inquiry.

Truly fascinating, subby.

I for one, will die by vice, at a somewhat young (but not completely unreasonable) age.

My legs, back, and neck, will likely be in working order at the time of death.

Can we really trust an info-graphic about the US that was made in the UK?

ksdanj: Most likely suicide. It's sort of a tradition passed down from the males on my paternal line.

197, stopping a black hole weapon from detonating in the star of humanity's 42 colony. The problem is my back-up will be destroyed too.

Jim_Callahan: And maybe take another moment to give a nice firm middle finger to all the monotheistic religions and Hinduism/Buddhism.

What did we ever do to you? All we want to do is hang out and meditate on the nature of existence.

mxwjs: so we aren't winning that war on cancer eh? time to put my money into something that is actually getting results... heart disease.

Hard to win the war on cancer when we keep winning the war on heart disease, causing all these old people to live a lot longer until they die of cancer.

Didn't we see a pie chart on this stuff 2 weeks ago?

ksdanj: Most likely suicide. It's sort of a tradition passed down from the males on my paternal line.

If figure I probably have at least another 20 decent years left in me. So, party on, Garth!

"Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it."

Georges Bernanos

Had to check your profile to see if we were related... nope just similar.

People would have been a lot more humble in matters of health 100 years ago, even 75. The "treatment" for a "weak heart" was rest. The "treatment" for cancer: lie down and wait. Pneumonia killed with reckless abandon, according to newspaper accounts of the mid-1930s.

There was a lot more "folks walking along minding their own business and dropping dead" back then.

As for me, I plan no "courageous battles against cancer." If cancer wants me, I'll go all passive-aggressive on it.

> Fascinating graphic reveals changing cause of death in America over last 100 years. How will YOU die? (dailymail.co.uk)

The British media's obsession with American health, politics and culture never ceases to amaze.

My past. It will catch up with me.

/I suddenly sound more desirable, don't I, farkettes?

nonvideas: mxwjs: so we aren't winning that war on cancer eh? time to put my money into something that is actually getting results... heart disease.

Hard to win the war on cancer when we keep winning the war on heart disease, causing all these old people to live a lot longer until they die of cancer.

Precisely. As my biochemistry professor explained, to live forever means inevitably dying of cancer, because mutations happen and sooner or later will turn nasty. Ironically, the ageing process is part of our own self-defence against cancer. The telomeres of chromosomes get shorter each time they replicate (think of them as being like the counter on an office photocopier) until they run out and the cell can't further replicate. If you could stop telomeres shortening, you could theoretically switch off a number of aspects of ageing, and theoretically you'd be on the path to living forever. And you'd be dead from cancer within weeks.

Yup. I thought this sounded familiar.

Life.

Assuming Social Security is nil in the future, and like most everyone else I'll be destitute, alone, and uninsured- So natirallu I'll go on a gleeful crime spree at age 86, culminating in stress-induced heart failure while interred in the comfy hospital ward in the state Pen.