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Originally Posted by Rain Man
As a minor digression, I'll occasionally hear people say, "The years at the end aren't great anyway, so I'll just [drink/smoke/fight/whatever]." The problem is that the years at the end aren't the years that you lose. You always have the unhealthy years at the end. The years you lose are the healthy years right before the unhealthy years.
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Yeah, and if I was guaranteed to live until I was 110, but could take off a decade of my life by eating whatever I wanted, I might just do that.... but, if we're talking the first decade or two of retirement, I kind of want to see that part.
I also saw a study a while back that says despite people thinking your personal rate of change plateaus as you reach adulthood, you tend to keep changing your hobbies/interests/etc. at the same rate or even more often as you age into and beyond your 40s/50s/so on... so I think that fallacy leads people into thinking they'll be bored out of their mind at 80 or 90, so who cares about those year.