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I have a flippant but not unserious suggestion: I had a doctor friend who put it succinctly: "You want to die of heart failure. It's relatively painless, it's
by legitster 2y ago
I have a flippant but not unserious suggestion:
I had a doctor friend who put it succinctly: "You want to die of heart failure. It's relatively painless, it's instant, and it's cheap. But heart disease is so easily preventable in a controlled environment that we can drag out lives much longer than they should be lived."
In a nursing home, they are obsessed with low fat, low sodium, heart-healthy diets. But you should consider a retirement of red meats and high activity.
- PorterBHall 1y agoI heard a podcast interview with the doctor recently who said that we have technology that can be implanted into someone who is at risk for dying of sudden cardiac arrest that will prevent it from happening. It tends to add a few years onto someone’s life, but it also consigns them to die slowly and painfully from congestive heart failure. The doctor said his patients grasp for anything that might extend their life, if even only for a few months. He often feels conflicted about installing these devices.