Rather than dying young.

Maybe it’s because of medical marvels and miracles. Making us live into old age. A curse, sort of. Alzheimer’s is primarily a disease of old age. Used to be that we died. In our 50s and 60s and 70s. Of heart attacks. Strokes. Cancer. All sorts of diseases. Now we linger and linger and linger. Into our 80s and 90s. Buying us time. To experience not only more life. But dementia, too. Of course, in time. There will be prevention and cure. Progress. Then there was Methuselah. He was supposed to have lived. Not only into his 90s. But to 900 and something. Hard to believe, isn’t it?  Could be real. Could be a myth. Take your choice. Anyway, I’d rather live into very old age. And risk Alzheimer’s. Rather than dying young. –Jim Broede