The Death Race Of The Sexes

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Do you want to rot in a "home" where if you're lucky they remember to wipe your **** alternate Thursdays or maybe slowly cooked slumped in front of your gas fire unable to move?

I have an elderly female relative who can't quite die, her mind is gone, her body doesn't work she's propped in a chair and left hanging between life and death...

If my dog was in that state ..............

aamcle
 
Better to burn out than to fade away.

... cos rust never sleeps! I'm looking forward to the OAP home - lolling around in the Parker Knoll, tartan shawl across my lap, fed a diet of psychoactive drugs whilst watching the world outside my window and daytime teevee.
 
its a miracle i survived to see 30, every day since has been a freebie ;)

I was 37 when the reaper took a very meaningful swipe with his scythe - but he missed by a hair's breadth. 15 years on and I feel better than ever. It's all about cutting back on the ale y'know. For me, anyway.
 
The (very surprising) reasons women live longer???

Not to me it isn't! The reason women live longer is that they don't do bugg*r all..what the hell would they die early from :confused:

As has already been said "better to burn out, than fade away"

Right better start running, just in case the wife is looking at this...
 
The (very surprising) reasons women live longer???

Not to me it isn't! The reason women live longer is that they don't do bugg*r all..what the hell would they die early from :confused:

As has already been said "better to burn out, than fade away"

Right better start running, just in case the wife is looking at this...
Well from my point of view my missus works hard keeping the house spotlessly clean,at it everyday, bless her,a job I wouldn't want
 
Well from my point of view my missus works hard keeping the house spotlessly clean,at it everyday, bless her,a job I wouldn't want

I don't lift a finger around the house - all my calories go west at work. The missus works smart not hard and does a jolly good job, but I wouldn't want any of it. Ironing, lol!
 
Who knows? My old uncle live til he was 86...done his duty in the trenches ,down the pit his working life,smoked woodbine and was down the Legion most nights...never married though.
 
It is actually down to the Grandmother effect and the menopause.

Evolution tried two paths for humans.

Down one path, the women stopped having children of their own at a certain age and helped their own daughters with theirs instead.

The other path is less well documented, as the first one seemed to work better in the sense that the grandchildren were more successful in living to see their own children grow up and have children.

Probably to do with the relationship between early humans' life spans and the length of time for a human to become knowledgeable enough for self sufficiency in our ancestral environment.

Orcas (Killer Whales) are the only other species I know of that this effect is prominent in. May be similar explanations, given that Orca pods seem to feed in highly specialised and quite different ways.
 

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