My father survived his mother by 16 years and lived shorter than his father for 10.
My mother has already been living longer than both of hers by 20 years. This, in spite of being very overweight, eating crap, never exercising, and never going for checkups which is why her cancer wasn’t detected before it got to stage 4. Her parents lived in the countryside, grew their own food, etc. All day in the fresh air, no pollution, walked everywhere. All of the urban side of my family except Grandma Klara lived into their eighties. This isn’t ethnicity, by the way. Great-grandpa was Polish. He died at 82, completely healthy, energetic, and clear-minded. Went in his sleep, no suffering. He was an absolute saint of a man, and God gave him the peaceful release he deserved.
Modernity is pretty great.
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