If someone is 96yrs old has a heart attack what would you make of this?

[VladmirsPoutine]

So a 96yr old man has a heart attack. Most mornings he has bacon/eggs etc fried in oil. Would your position be to cut down on the oily foods because they aren't very healthy for anyone at that rate let alone a near centenarian but would your view be well you're 96 so if you fancy also breaking out a crack-pipe have at it!!!

Just curious as I'm not sure where I stand on this and I do have a stake in this particular battle.

My grandad had been told in his fifties to stop smoking & drinking due to high blood pressure. He was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in his sixties. His last Christmas age 86 he had several glasses of wine, a brandy, several helpings of trifle, chocolates & everything he wanted. Later the next year he had several strokes & was admitted to hospital, my mum knew he didn't have long left, every day she used to share a bar of chocolate with him when she went to visit, a nurse caught her giving him some & went mad, my mum told the nurse whatever my grandad wanted, she would give him & to mind her own business.

if I get to 96 and someone starts telling me how to live my life I’ll fry them in lard and peg them out for the birds

I concur. Hell, I'm only 48 and would do that now.

Crack pope for me too

I presume the gentleman in question has capacity... In which case its none of the OPs business and she can't tell. Him what he can and can't eat.

My mother is 82. She got over two bouts of cancer in the last 5 years (different types) and some other disorders. She has recently been admitted for hypertension complications. The nurse asked about diet and alcohol consumption. My mother confessed to a few beers a week, and a hefty double scotch before bedtime. Nurse started preaching about alcohol units and even wrote to the GP asking him to counsel on consumption. My mother laughed and said if you get to my age, and get over my surgery, THEN you can tell me what to do...

So he survived the heart attack? That would suggest that he’s pretty strong and that the bacon and eggs haven’t done much damage.

I would assume it would be too little too late to change his diet now. Just let him have what he wants

It's actually really obvious which side you are on from your OP with the crack pipe comment. He was old enough to decide if he wants a greasy fry up since before you were born. And he's almost 100 so he's clearly done alright making the decisions for himself!

Definitely team crack pipe here.
Ffs, he's 96. If i make it that far (unlikely due to ill health) I'll be eating and drinking whatever the hell i like.
My Df died a long time ago he was in his his late fifties. I was watching him one morning when he asked me if I was smoking, when i said yes he said "gis one then". I told him DM would go mad and he laughed and said " what's it gonna do, kill me ?".
He knew he was dying and what he wanted. If he had asked me for anything else at that time I would have given it to him regardless of any consequences.
He actually died of what used to be referred to as a drinkers disease.
He would have half a shot glass of wine on Christmas eve from the time i was ten. And half a glass of Guinness at the six weddings we went to between my 10th birthday and 18th. Please let him have the fry up if thats what he wants. 💐

if I get to 96 and someone starts telling me how to live my life I’ll fry them in lard and peg them out for the birds

Exactly. If any young 'un tried to stop me having a bit of what I fancied aged 96, I'd shove my walking stick up their pompous, arrogant arse. He's not a toddler, treat him like the amazing and tough as old boots adult that he is to have survived a HA and still be here. Bacon for the win.

Absolutely #teamcrackpipe

My beloved grandfather lived to 102. He had four sugars in his tea and occasionally made it with condensed milk as well as the sugar!

pick reese p @to

Like the majority of posters I would give him the fatty food if that’s what he wants.
As a GP I’ve noticed a huge variation in how people view their health as they get older. Some people hit 80 and think that’s it, I’ve done well, I’m going to forget all the healthy stuff and do what I like. Others can be 100 and still want to take cholesterol lowering medication and watch the sugar in their diet. As long as they’ve got capacity then they can make their own decisions.

Let him enjoy the last year's of his life if that's a fry up every day then so be it. My nan was told to give up drinking not a big drinker but enjoyed a night cap she give it up 3 months later died so the outcome is going to be the same either way.

Team crack pipe here too. In his shoes, I'd totally roll my eyes if anyone suggested I stopped eating bacon and eggs. Although, oil - they're much nicer fried in butter!

I've often said if I make it to 90, I'm trying heroin. I imagine it's great for the aches and pains.

Stop saying it! It would be good for your aches and pains precisely once, then you'd spend most of your waking life and all your money taking more and more just to try to feel normal because it hurts like fuck when you start to withdraw. Not the ending I'd pick out for any 90+ year old...

😂bacon and eggs and all the trimmings.. #teamcrackpipe

He's an adult, entirely up to him whether he's 26 or 96. @MrsTerryPratchett @PatchyTwat - I'm trying it all when I'm 70 :)

Crack pipe.

@Theredjellybean

I presume the gentleman in question has capacity... In which case its none of the OPs business and she can't tell. Him what he can and can't eat.

If he doesn't have capacity, even more reason to let him enjoy whatever he still enjoys.

My dad loves chewy toffee (and Blackpool rock) my mum nags him not to eat it as it “ruins your teeth”. He is 83 and has all his own teeth apart from 2 at the front he lost during a cricket match when he was 12. I bought him a large jar of the stuff for Father’s Day. His eyes lit up 🙂

If he's made it to 96 he should carry on doing exactly whatever it is he's been doing.

Is that you,. Meghan?

It's up to him no? He's 96 and unless he wants to eat rat poison then he should be allowed to have agency.

I’d let him eat what he liked. He’s lived about 15 years more than the average person and so he won’t have long left. What’s the point in taking away what he enjoys…

If he was 66 my answer would be different but when you’ve already had a longer life then carry on