I ask you: Is it better to have worked hard enough and well enough to become a professor at Stanford and die at age 55; or to have just muddled through and still be standing at the age of 73??
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Excellent picking, JOHN. You should be a DJ. It pays big money in Vegas.
Mike
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Are those the only two choices, or can you also choose between having a fatal disease and not having the disease?
busterwasmycat
I somehow miss the irony. I presume that the prof in question declared that multitasking was a health risk by creating excessive stress (and thus was a risk to longevity)? I would think the irony of Jim Fixx, the inveterate promoter of jogging as a health benefit dying of a heart attack at 55 would be ironic, but Dr Stanford, there, I don't see the irony.
But I would rather live a full life and have it end early than live an empty life for longer. There is no guarantee that living emptily will add longevity anyway, so why waste time when there is a limited but unknowable allotment available? If you are going to live, you might as well LIVE.
EDIT. I clicked on the link to the Faron Young youtube song (live hard die young), got curious and googled him, and it turns out he lived until the mid1990s, when he killed himself. There is some sort of irony in that.
Anonymous
This song might help you clarify your thoughts, Bobflash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e1b68vx38Y