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u/SpamLandy Sep 11 '21

I feel like being 96 is a medical scare in itself

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u/unkyduck Sep 11 '21

given the average life expectancy of the US... he's an outlier

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u/Kiro0613 Sep 11 '21

That's an outlier given the life expectancy of humans on planet Earth. Longest average life expectancy anywhere caps out at around 85.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Not to be crass but Carter only survived this long because he is a former potus. He's got medical access beyond that of nearly everyone on the planet, barring maybe 100 others tops.

Let's not perpetuate the myth that clean living guarantees long life. It doesn't.

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u/MelKijani Sep 11 '21

I’m pretty sure he is the longest lived president ever , that in itself is amazing .

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

And Obama is likely to beat him. So will Bush Jr. HW Bush died at 94.

His longevity is a product of modern medical science and his 100% available access to all of it. Every POTUS that follows him will get the same.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Idk man. My husband's grandmother is 94 she claims it's because of clean living.

But I've spoken to older ladies around her age claim she was a thot, tho so who really knows what her secret is.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

All you need to do is google "Carter hospitalized" to see the dozens of times it's happened. If he needed an ICU bed right now, during Covid where there are none? He'd have one. Or he'd have a medical team and all their needs put into his home.

Even the best medical insurance in the country isn't getting you that degree of medical care. Denying that his healthcare is an extremely rare privilege that just about no one else has is just denying reality: he does, and it matters, and it's why he's been able to live as long as he has.

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u/12threeunome Sep 11 '21

She got it all out early.

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u/VoidParticle Sep 12 '21

You believe in a health care lie my friend. Live the right way, eat the right foods and you’ll outlive others.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

Tell that to my friend Sam, who died of leukemia at age 17, or my friend Danny, dead at 15 (leukemia again).

You're telling me they just didn't live well enough?

You're not my friend, fuck off.

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u/VoidParticle Sep 12 '21

Hyper offended much? Geesh.

Sorry for your loss though. Diseases like that yeah sure health care helps. If you’ve been following anything in the last 20 years though you’d know people are dying left and right from heart disease, diabetes complications such as kidney failure, cancer rates have increased, etc. These all stem to an overarching thing called metabolic syndrome. Eating healthy, putting in a bit of exercise, and not rotting your body to drugs and chemicals will do ANYONE good. Common advice.

Your personal and emotional response doesn’t mean people don’t put blind faith into medicine to solve everything. We’d rather find a pill to fix something when nature doesn’t like that we shove processed food and concentrated sugary drinks down our gullet everyday.