I'm Constantly Going to Funerals Lately

I knew someone a few years ago who was constantly going to funerals, he'd be seen at every funeral withing a twenty mile radius of his home, and didn't know most of the deceased individuals. He must have been to more funerals than the TDs. He'd have a good feed and then go home.

"There's Mossie Foley sniffing for a corpse" said someone when they saw him in the street one day.

I don't know how many people went to his funeral when he died, but I'd like to think that everybody within a twenty mile radius of his place got their revenge and paid their last respects.

In fairness to the medical profession, they are merely sales people for the pharma industry, they know nothing about nutrition, which is at the root of most diseases.

They want patients to remain dependant on them, no harm in that, but we should acknowledge that

Quite a few people in their 50s in our area dying from Brain aneurysms- Cocaine … not spoken about though

if your diet is bad, and you smoke alot and don,t get much exercise ,or you are overweight you life expectancy is low.its not rocket science

True, but you have to add in genetics. My Dads parents neither smoked nor drank and were nowhere near overweight.. His father died of a heart attack in his late 40’s or very early 50’s I think, his mother a cancer usually associated with smoking but there was no smoking in the house…. My Dad himself also a non smoker and non drinker, no excess weight, always been a walker, yet has heart issues since his 50’s.. so genetics are a factor.

On the other hand a lad in our local, four or five night a week man. Don’t know how many he smokes but smokes on the way down, on the way home and out two or three while there… so you’d estimate conservatively 15-20 a day… he’d be about 75.

Yes genetics have an effect but my theory is young people do not realize using drugs or smoking will have long term effects on your health .of course it may take years to feel the effects of you are 20 years old

It’s not rocket science, but it’s not quite so simple as that either - obviously it’s true that bad diet, smoking, lack of exercise and even genetics are risk factors which decrease life expectancy, but access to healthcare will be a more significant determinant factor of life expectancy and better health outcomes overall:

https://healthmanager.ie/2021/09/life-expectancy-in-ireland-above-the-eu-average/

Young people do realise the long-term effects, but don’t care about the long-term effects, because they’re at some distant point in the future, and young people are notoriously poor at forward-thinking, much easier with the benefit of hindsight, or rather like the OP - nothing like a bit of confirmation bias to put the frighteners on a person as they’re getting to an age where they imagine people around them are dropping like flies and they begin questioning themselves could they be next?

Access to healthcare isn’t guaranteed to prolong their life or even guarantee quality of life, but it helps!

Yes, would agree with you that nutrition is a huge thing. We need to know and understand what we are actually feeding our body and if we are giving it the right things. For me I know my right bmi I’m not obsessive about it but I try to keep a healthy weight and keep moving.

There should be much more awareness about nutrition, and eating foods that are nutrient rich rather than empty carbs. I’d be very much in favour of making cooking or home economics a compulsory school subject for all students. Let young people get the knowledge of food and nutrients and how to cook . After all this is something we have to do for all of our lives( eat and provide nutrition for ourselves ) whether we like it or not! It’s essential.

The high use of illegal substances over the last 30 years may be a cause that is coming home to roost?

Walk through a graveyard. Start at the older rows and move towards the newer. Ignoring the small children you will notice the number of people dying in their 50s, 60s and early 70s is massively reduced. And the numbers in their 80's and 90s is much higher. Thing is for someone in thier 30s / 40s / 50s we know an awful of of people in those age groups but very few in their 80s and 90s. Therefore we see a apparently disproportionate number of funerals in the age groups in which we know people

I see dead people. Everywhere. They just don't know it yet. Maybe it's Soylent Green at last.