Can't say I'd want to live to 120. We might find cures for cancer and other illnesses but it still doesn't stop the fact that by the time you are in your 70's it is game over as far as your body goes. We are not designed to go on for much over the 70's and all you need do is look at the crumblies to see what quality of life you can expect. If you can manage to get into your 80's with all your marbles and not needing to wear Tena pants you should count yourself lucky. There will always be the exceptions "my mate's wife's great Uncle lived to 100 and used to run marathons" and the like but if the Alzheimers doesn't get you first the body will pack up. I suggest we solve the world's over-polulation with a Soylent Green style solution. Not exactly eat the dead but maybe turn us all into fertilizer, there are enough of us that are full of **** anyway. I don't want the Edward G Robinson exit either, no watching nature programmes listening to classical music, I want a blow job to the Ace of Spaces before I get whacked.
As I've recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer and discovered last summer I had c.o.p.d. ( previously called emphysema ) I thought I'd let you know how it affected me. Firstly I'm older than you lot, smoked up to last year,and drink more red wine than I should, but I still thought I was indestructible, which is probabaly how most people feel. Don't get me wrong, I don't want sympathy or special consideration as I don't feel ill and have not had to take any time off work and I still have a drink. But believe me it's a shock when you're given the news but once you get over that and sort your head out it's still ****e but you get used to it.
You'd cope in your own way. The vast majority of the time I don't even think about it as I,m not exhibiting any symptoms and not experiencing any side effects from treatment. It was a blood test that showed I have it. On a rare occasion I feel like greetin' my eyes out or telling someone to **** off just for being a tiny bit of an arsehole but mostly I'm okay.
As long as you didn't do a John Hartson and let the ****er grow to the size of an apple then you got the 'good' cancer, in that they chop off a ball, replace it with a rubber one and 99% of the time you live as if nothing happened. As for the c.o.p.d I've no idea what that is.
Mike you don't know your arse from your testicles. COPD - lung disease - basically stop smoking or you'll end up with an oxygen tank.
