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In reply to the discussion: Question: how would you feel if they raised the minimum age of Social Security or Medicare? [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Dead. They have certainly done their share of helping the Elite see to it that no one gets the reward of Social Security checks.
I very much appreciate your graph.
I know that cancer is more than making up for the "life extension" that would have come about due to lifestyle changes that enable people to avoid heart disease. Anyone reading the obituary pages sees that about half the people that die each day are dying due to being old - and the other half are people in their thirties, forties or fifties who has died from cancer. (And usually people who die much younger, say in their teens or twenties, die from accidents.)
But a lot of the people who get cancer have no say in that. If you are poor, or a minority, you are going to live closer to nasty things like incinerators, etc. So you can try and be healthier, but if the air you breathe and the water you drink contain toxins, what do you do? There 's not much that can be done to avoid eating and drinking.