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There's a brazilian rocker from the 70's who sang: "I prefer to be this wandering metamorphosis / rather than having that same old opinion about everything". T
by hcarvalhoalves 13y ago
There's a brazilian rocker from the 70's who sang: "I prefer to be this wandering metamorphosis / rather than having that same old opinion about everything".
To change is to be alive, when you enter homeostatis it's when you start dying. I know people who had an active life with good health and working up into their 60's or 70's and died in a matter months after retiring.
- flyinRyan 13y agoThere could be many reasons for that. I would like to see the comparisons between Americans life expectancy after retirement vs. Europeans (removing all people who quickly start work again after retirement). People who have stressful jobs and then go on long vacations often get sick the first few days into it. It seems to me to be some kind of "stress dump" as your body and mind begin to ease into a lower stress environment. In the US we get such a small amount of vacation days, my personal (completely unchecked) hypothesis is that when people retire they finally get to do that dump that Europeans are doing once or more per year but the strain of a 60+ year dump is too much for their bodies to handle.