What would you NEVER do regularly even if it meant living longer?

[BeRubyReader]

Waking up at 5am on weekends

What would you NEVER do regularly even if it meant living longer?

Wrong question. Ask instead
What would you NEVER do regularly even if it meant avoiding dementia/blindness/terminal cancer/Parkinson’s/MND ?
and you would get closer to the reality of how your life would end.

I'm not sure the kind of catastrophic thinking that results in the logic that avoiding one thing would be the key factor in terminal disease lends itself to longevity.

All the cold water things already listed.

anything that costs my inner peace- so personally this would be
being in crowded / loud environments
moving from the countryside (I need to be around nature)
giving up sport / movement
getting fat (like I would hate to feel unfit / immobile)
giving up being around my animals

Give up carbs (can just about deal with smaller portions.)
Running (not with my knees)
Wild swimming (though I love swimming in a pool)
Live in the USA (racism, guns, expensive healthcare, Donald Trump)
Live somewhere where it's mostly cold or dark most of the year (UKs bad enough for me!)

Eat salad.

Veganism

No caffeine

Eat kimchi. I can’t make myself like it.

I don’t want to live longer but I do a lot of these things 😂. I do them to look and feel better, to stay healthy for as long as possible etc but no thanks to living longer!

I still set my alarm for 5 at the weekends so I can walk the dogs before anyone else is around 😂

Most things tbh 😅

I love to watch tv and drink wine and coke zero, all things which are bad for me

But I have gone on a diet so my joy in life is capped at 50%

Raw seafood. I just can't.

You know you can live like a nun/monk and these things can still happen....it's luck of the draw or genetics a lot of the time.
As the old saying goes, you're here for a good time not a long time.

My mind went immediately to "killing innocents and drinking their blood"

😳

Haha I often start my day before 6am with a swim in a very chilly lake 😂😂
I’d never drink tea/coffee again (I hate them anyway so no hardship there).
Thinking seriously I’d say I’d never drink alcohol again if I could be guaranteed a long but crucially healthy life. I love a drink, dont don’t do it often but really enjoy it when the time suits it. But I’d easily give it up if I could do a direct swap for longevity.

Eat only non processed foods and have seven portions of fruit and veg a day.
Do twenty minutes of heavy exercise a day.
Stop smoking weed.

Running for fun. Ew.

Early mornings too (did 4:30am wake ups for work for 4 years when I was in my 20s. I don't know how I did it. I couldn't do it now)
Give up gin
Give up potatoes (chips, crisps, waffles, hash browns, rostis, croquettes, mash....no!!)
Give up gravy
Give up cheese
Swimming, running, gym (tried all three over the years, hate it)
Walk instead of driving everywhere

I'd rather have these things and enjoy life than live longer. I hate the thought of getting to being reeeally old, just slowly withering away in an old people's home. I'd be sat there wishing I'd just had the fucking gin, potatoes, gravy and cheese!

Flossing my teeth.

You really think people slowly dying in nursing homes have had a healthy lifestyle 🤷‍♀️ People can make their own choices of course but poor nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle attribute to heart disease, stroke, dementia and poor mobility.

I don’t understand this obsession with prolonging life. I don’t want to live longer, if it means growing old.

And in 2020, the only priority seemed to be preventing death at all costs, we sacrificed EVERYTHING on that altar, prolonging life to keep thousands of elderly people miserable and isolated,

I have discovered I feel the same. I wish I didn't!

I never said that people slowly dying in nursing homes have led healthy lives. But they generally don't live into say, being over a hundred, do they?!

I'd rather die earlier, say in my 70s or 80s from my lifestyle, because I enjoyed it before I got ill, instead of leading a miserable life of denying myself the good stuff and jogging every day just to keep eeking out as many years of life as possible.

I'm not saying Id want to eat and drink myself into a stupor. I'm actually slim, by BMI and blood pressure is in the 'optimal' range and I get enough exercise through my physical job. But I could ramp it up and eat salads everyday, stop drinking alcohol altogether, cut out UPFs and snack foods, and add in some extra exercise to prolong my life. But quite frankly, I don't want to. I'm not fussed about living as long as I possibly can. I'd rather have the crisps and gin thanks!

Couldn't be vegan
teetotal
Live somewhere remote / mountainous /cold
( No Chalet School sanatarium)

Loads of things that I already don’t do! Like wearing factor 50 every day, going to the gym, giving up sugar and alcohol.

The healthiest person alive will still die of something. There is a balance to be struck between longevity and embracing and enjoying life.