[Retric]

> I think it's completely plausible for a single patient or small group of patients to arrive at a more patient-focused conclusion than the medical industry.

Try other things and odds are very good your going to make things worse and get many people killed. Yet, some people still don't use seat belts because of those tiny odds it's going to make things worse. Let's avoid vaccines, buy guns, and go vegan because clearly we are a special snowflake unlike those other drones.

Sorry, you and everyone you ever know, or even read about are going to die relatively soon. Such is life and death. But, not thinking about it well that's easy.

[pessimizer]

No - I've heard that if you eat exactly the right things, move in exactly the right ways, think exactly the right thoughts, and carefully control your breathing, you can live forever and never die. You can detect when you're in this state through visual inspection of your excrement, an inner feeling of subtle warmth radiating from the stomach or chest, a clearness of mind, and a feeling of being a conduit through which the natural order of the earth and its life flows.

This must be true, because a version of this has been told to me by 4 out of 5 people that I've ever met.

[gozur88]

There used to be a comedian (can't remember who) who joked "All those people who ate right, exercised, and got plenty of sleep are gonna be awful embarrassed when they die of nothing."

People believe this kind of stuff on an emotional level because they can't face their own mortality. I have a theory this is why we're so interested in how other people die. It's so we can disconnect other people's deaths with our own - "I don't have to worry about dying that way because I eat plenty of vegetables/don't smoke/don't drink/don't associate with violent people and therefore I don't have to think about dying."