fern wrote:Drinking water, exercises, bike riding, no sugar, no wine, etc...
What kind of life is that?
I am afraid I will not follow suit with any of those advice, which are good and I receive with sincere feelings of love for all, but I prefer to die soon than to die one or two years later with that regime.
Besides, who knows, bells still does not call me to rest.
Moriture te salutam regards
Fern
Sure you are right. I had a deep impression on that since I was 13-14 year old. My father's colleague at a research center and a good, maybe the best friend of his, had a heart attack. He was not even 60 of age and a pretty brilliant researcher trying to find the exact and general solution to 3D Ising Model (unsolved to our days). If he had solved that, he would have received Nobel Prize. Well, doctors told him that skiing is strictly forbidden. It was his hobby and he said "if skiing is forbidden, then I better die". He died while skiing half a year later.
I had a cancer during my PhD studies in USA in years 2000's. It went well, cured by extraction (Stage I), but doctors told me that smoking is forbidden. Well, smoking in 10 years since then increased from 1 pack a day to 1.5 packs a day.
You will never die in the sense that your writings, your recommended to me reading (on CTF, remember?) will somehow survive to who knows what future generations. Picture taken 10 minutes ago of one of my active readings and re-readings:
And that is what a cancer survivor with ban on cigarettes does two weeks ago on holidays in the beautiful town of Parga (a coastal town with heavy Venezian influences on the western coast of Greece):
Credit for picture taken to my girlfriend
. Women are such wonderful beings.
I have no idea what is my life expectancy. Probably not very high. But listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yibf6QNjgGU ,
I don't care too much. I know you are into classical music, not sure if piano impresses you. This is the penultimate recital of Horowitz, in Vienna. Kinderszenen of Schumann. The piano is specially prepared for the frailty of his fingers. Only by this rendering, he is immortal.