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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Uncfred · 61-69, M

So when do you plan to "pop your clogs"?

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Uncfred Pop my clogs? You are a Brit.

Popping my clogs isn't a matter of choice. I know you guys on the other side of the pond have dumped Christian moral values. We yanks are still pretty traditional Christian folks. Suicide is a mortal sin. I would like to kick the bucket before 60. That's about the age when you should be dead.

Uncfred · 61-69, M

@sree251 Popping ones clogs is kicking the bucket, but not suicide.
What about proverbial 3 score years and ten (70), but you hope to duck out early? Do your kinfolk know?
I wonder if SW will still be running in 15 years time, if so you will have a chance to recant your views.
Good health to you fella.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Uncfred Seems like you like being alive, Fred. You are inured to the human misery around you. You remind me of my time at university in Glasgow. Friday nights, there were fights outside pubs. I was walking through the streets back to my hostel. Scared me shitless when I saw people getting kicked in the head. We kill each other for one good reason or another.

Uncfred · 61-69, M

@sree251 Glasgow is unique in its treatment of mankind, especially around Barlinnie and Toll Cross, and I am whitness.