Old age is not natural.

It just doesn't happen in the wild where the lifestyle is healthy and every animal is physically fit and active.

We, on the other hand, propped up by modern medicine, live way past our sell-by dates like shriveled brown leaves clinging to branches of trees in the harshness of winter.

It's not natural.

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

This is ahistorical nonsense, people lived to old age frequently before modern medicine. Just a lot more people died from disease.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@CountScrofula How would you know how long people lived before modern medicine which started during the industrial revolution?

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@sree251 Because "recorded history" was recorded at the time and people did things like record births and deaths.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@CountScrofula By "recorded history", do you mean the inscriptions on gravestones? Such as,

"Here lies John Doe. Born 1220 Died 1310"

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@sree251 Government records, biographies/autobiographies, histories (old ones not modern histories), inscriptions on things like tombstones, etc...

Part of making big societies work is writing things down and an awful lot of that has taken place for the past few thousand years.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@CountScrofula Well, just because there were old people since the dawn of recorded history doesn't prove that old age is natural. People are like leaves that turn brown and shrivel up but just won't fall off the branches to the ground. This is just not natural.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@sree251 Got it so destroy all medicine. But keep the iphones.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@CountScrofula The telephone is not natural. We have got to live within shouting distance of one another. Small communities like villages of a few hundred people at most. Messengers on foot to deliver messages. Just picture this scenario and you can see how far down the tubes we have gone going unnatural. A city of 20 million is nuts. It breeds crooked politicians and violent crime.