ldyb2 wrote:
My dad died at the age 45. My half brother at 55. Father cut steel in steel mills.


The women died my mother 86. My fathers sister my aunt 95. Two of my mothers one 87 and one is 96 both alive.

Good genes bad genes? Who knows. Environment?
No drinking no smoking no drugs. Maybe for my mother and my aunts.
I am 68 Will my generation live as long as my aunts? Who knows? It's a crap shoot.


I received a letter from my doctor, yesterday on an allergy test I took.   Seems I am allergic to pollution and there isn't anything so far I can take to clear this up.  It is affecting my lungs and breathing.   I already have lung damage because of the clots which were in my lungs for several months in 1994 to 95.     As I said, before, daddy died in 48 at the age of 58 but most of my family members lived to be 80 and 90 years old.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight Eisenhower