Men Can Live 20 Years Longer... But There's A High Cost

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10. I'm already outliving my siblings

and many friends I grew up with and I'm only 51. I've lived a strangely charmed life as far as health is concerned. I smoke cigarettes and weed plus I drink 24 ounce craft beers like they are going to stop making them soon. I eat whatever I want and never go to the doctor. So if I feel my blood is a little thick I will take a half an aspirin.

I think what's keeping me alive is the constant struggle economically. I walk to work and have an enormous garden I care for. So after some weed and craft beers, I'll walk to work and be on my feet all night running for customers, then, in the morning I go to a more strenuous job cutting and installing headstones. I'll come home to my hovel, really just a desperately held rectangle, and say hello to my wife of 30 years. She will tell me all our problems with our grown children and show me the bills she fished out of the trash I tried to throw away. Wash, rinse, repeat.

The main thing being that we are always in so much financial trouble that it would be really inconvenient for me to die, thus it won't happen. Mind over matter.