About the young & healthy death issue....
Isn't it because it's the sort of thing that turns your immune system against you? ie., if you have a strong immune system, it will kick the shit out of you.
That's pretty scary.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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