"Rev Dr" Lenny Flank
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| Quote (BWE @ July 15 2007,12:24) | My Grandfather made it to 90 but decided one day that the leak in the roof would be best dealt with on a 100' day in August and had a heart attack up on his roof.
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According to family lore, one of my ancestors (a great-great uncle or something) lived to be 90, and was killed when he was watching his grandsons cut down a tree, and part of it fell on him.
On my mother's side, everyone lives to be 80 or 90. On my father's side, everyone has bad tickers and dies when they're 60 or 70.
I don't know which genes I got. But I do know that at age 46, I'm a hundred times more active than my father was when *he* was 46. I still kayak, hike and camp a lot, and ride a bicycle six miles for work every day. At age 46, my father huffed and puffed going up a flight of stairs (he had his first heart attack at age 47 or 48, IIRC). But then, he is (still) a two-pack-a-day smoker, and I rarely smoked (cigarettes, anyway).
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