Jiggly wrote:
The hobby has lots of people who are morbidly obese.
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbid_obesity for definition)

Sadly, many of them die from weight-related causes. We lose a lot of
nice people and good operators that way.

That reminds me.....


For years we've been force fed about how we have to eat right, not
smoke, etc. How the obese ans smokers and heavy drinkers were going to
be a healthcare disaster.

Apparently that stuff takes an average of 4 years off our life. People
who live the proper life will live around 4 years longer on average.

But the kicker is this:

When they got the stats on relative life expectancy, they found the
causes of death. Those obese and smoking and hard drinkin' jerks tended
to have a quick end, while the righteous proper folk tended to have long
debilitating ends.

My Mother-in-law didn't smoke, didn't drink, and spent the lat 8 years
of her life as an dementia patient in a nursing home. I cringe every
time I think of that happening to me.

The problem with lengthening our lives is that any gains we make are at
the wrong end.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -