Re: aarp

Many people may not believe it, or want to but...

My mothers family was a back woods, mountain family. They all lived into their late 90's or early 100's (every one had lots of apple trees, berry bushes, and gardens) and NEVER saw a doctor EVER.

My mom will tell you today that our life style and "hedonism" is causing our ills and shorter life spans. Dad is finally starting to believe her... we got him buying the organic groceries, salt, oils and healthy sugars now :-) Knowing him, he will outlive us all. He calls me planting season to till the garden. That, after being diagnosed as terminal in the mid-80's and dying twice... yep, brought back to life on the table. He is a story and a half by himself living 20 years after all that, and the only living survivor of a Mayo clinic study group outliving the last one by I think 10+ years now.

One lady had 9 kids, birthed them at home with untrained assistance. When she was 89, her kids finally got her to reluctantly go to a doctor, her one and only time... the doctor's jaw dropped and so did everyone else's when she was told that if she was still fertile, she was healthy enough to have 9 more... of course she got up every morning at 5 and worked a full day gardening, tending stock and running with the grand\greatgrand kids.

Why do people today find it so hard to believe that NO one ever lived in an assisted living (unless you call multiple generation co-habitation assisted living, but then who was assisting who?) environment and worked\played till the day they died? I do not remember ONE of these people being bed ridden for any length of time, a day, 2 at most and then gone. In fact they knew it was their time. The body followed the mind. I think instead of being a burden they chose freedom from this plane.

grz