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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Adogslife · 61-69, M

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

I’m as fit, or more fit, than people half my age. What’s your point?

Old people sit in Lazy Boy recliners, next to vials of daily meds, watching tv and waiting to die?

It is completely natural. Exercise hard and eat properly.

You forgot one thing about the wild, natural selection. It includes the word selection.

As humans, selection, is a choice. It’s not all doctors and medicine.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Adogslife Selection, as you mean it, may be true for folks who are in a position to choose to isolate themselves from the lifestyle of the masses trapped like lemmings in conventional society. Exercise hard and eat properly, you say. I couldn't do that some ten years ago as a shit hot young professional in a Fortune 500 company climbing the stairway to the stars. Even then, I heard what you are saying: exercise and eat properly. After a hectic day in the office, I head for the company gym in the same building. I never felt that it was smart running on the treadmill and maintaining a 135 bpm heart rate for 40 minutes with my mind still working hard on matters in the office. I decided to change my schedule. I hit the treadmill first thing in the morning at 6.30 am and, after a good workout, waltz into my office a little before 8 am. It was well and good if I didn't have to leave the office on company business which saw me flying across the country at least once a week. Overnight trips were rare. On average it was more like two days out of town. It wasn't long before the morning gym sessions went out the window. You either commit yourself to the company or to your body. I made my choice. I quit.

Tell me, how many young professional would choose to dump a hot career for health of the body? What about the other 99% of people who don't have a choice and working to death keeping their shirts on their back and roofs over their wife and kids? These days, even the wives are doing the same shit to help with family survival. Stress levels are off the charts, and the body is kept going with medications. Do I sound like I am giving a wrong take on life out there in the real world?

Healthy and fit as you and I are, and protected from falling prey to beasts (discounting those of the human kind), we can go on living till our bodies fall apart. Did you have cataracts work done on you to keep you from going half blind? Hearing ok? From here on in, you are going to need propping up by modern medicine even if your heart just won't go on beating. Is that natural? Why would you want to go on living? What is it about this life that you are attached to?