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People are different. For example, my fear of death is in the from existential dread. It's an occasional thing. We should probably try harder to make people he

• dachris 1y ago
  Unfortunately, in the end, bad health is likely to come get you anyways, you just have a higher likelihood of more and more healthy years. A good friend of mine lived healthy, and still went hiking in their 90s. Yet, they had a stroke and are now bedridden. If you just drop dead after having had a nice live or go through months or years of frailty and bad health, it's all in the cards.
  • maccard 1y ago
    There's also the possibility that you can suffer from a long series of health conditions causing you a very reduced quality of life over a long period of time, have a stroke, and become bedridden. Perosnally I'd rather be healthy up until that particular time comes (if it indeed comes for me)
• fsckboy 1y ago
  without disputing that there exists an optimal diet/exercise regiment for longevity and health, i very much doubt that we at present have a clue what it is. every day new science and medical evidence overturns old, and reproducibility fails. optimizing diet and rigorous exercise comes at some cost in the form of time spent in your precious youth. so you sacrifice youthtime for a chance at a longer better old age. each hour of exercise does not make you live an hour longer, so you are net negative from the get-go. (if you love exercise, it's not a loss, but in that case you would do it anyway even if it shortened your life because you love it, no need to spend time extolling its virtues) i optimize for doing what i love to do all the time.
  • kiba 1y ago
    Exercise done today improve health and well being. I would not consider that a waste.
  • ndriscoll 1y ago
    Even if they don't enjoy working out, most people would probably enjoy living in a strong, healthy, good looking body. The hour of exercise makes every future hour of life slightly better, even in the short term (within a couple months of effort). Following pretty much any strength training program will also do a pretty good job even if it's not an optimal routine.
    • masfuerte 1y ago
      You don't need an hour. Fifteen minutes a day will make a very obvious difference. It's like you're trying to put people off!
  • maccard 1y ago
    > optimizing diet and rigorous exercise comes at some cost in the form of time spent in your precious youth. so you sacrifice youthtime for a chance at a longer better old age. each hour of exercise does not make you live an hour longer, so you are net negative from the get-go. Pretty much all science on exercise's impact on both physical and health can be loosely summarized by "doing anything, anything at all is likely to have significant short and long term benefits". Similarly, nutrition can be summarised as "try eat a balanced diet, but at the very least just avoid hyper UPF, and don't eat red meat every day". You might decide that's worth it, but "walk your kids/dog/partner/self twice a day and only eat red meat on the weekends" is probably enough to make a significant impact for a very significant number of people.
  • jajko 1y ago
    Such a wrong mindset... but you do you, don't complain later when inevitable comes, its not like there haven't been hundreds of millions of folks who made similar life decisions and we can easily see what it leads to (or doesn't). One example out of sea of examples - climbing. Indoor, outdoor, bouldering, long walls, doesn't matter. Its an amazing activity, every single person I know is doing it at least occasionally becomes much happier during&after a session. Massive health benefits could be just a side effect and it would most probably still be the best and most memorable thing you did on that day. Plus people in community are generally very positive, welcoming, helpful and happy to talk to. Its sort of sport that changes you in many ways for the better (healthier, happier, better life perspective and so on). How much time it takes is sort of irrelevant, ie coming and commenting here costs you probably more time than continuous amateur climbing career would do. Change climbing for many other sports and it would still be true.
• alabastervlog 1y ago
  I don't get how people can't be kinda freaked out by the universe subjectively fast-forwarding to its end, to occur at any time between this second and a few decades from now.
  • ajmurmann 1y ago
    Worse you won't see how it ends! I recently read a novel (this is a massive spoiler so I am not naming it) that drove this point home extremely well and has me thinking about it all the time since I read it. The book built up a number of enticing storylines. A huge mystery, various characters had struggles we wanted to learn about. However, the book resolves almost none of this because the protagonist dies and we just never find out. That's what death is. There is no debriefing. You don't find out how life continues for your loved ones you leave behind. You don't find out who wins the next election. You don't find out how your favorite tv show wraps up or what other movies your favorite director makes. You don't find out if faster-than-light travel will be achieved, if we'll one day inhabit Mars or if quantum computers breaking RSA will cause havoc. It just en
    • psunavy03 1y ago
      This is highly dependent on one's own belief system and theology, because beyond a certain point, we literally can't prove what happens to a human mind when the body dies, the existence or non-existence of a soul, etc. Believe or disbelieve whatever you like, go on about a God of the Gaps, but that's why they talk about people's religious "faith."
      • kiba 1y ago
        You're right that there's no way of knowing, but there's no need to make up something from thin air and believe that somehow is true.
    • Tijdreiziger 1y ago
      Who cares? Sometimes, you don’t know everything, nor will you. You won’t be around for everything. This is the human condition. It seems unwise to spend too many brain cycles worrying about this.