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by irahul 3578 days ago
> If you don't have a cola each day, you can dribble into a towel for another 3 years when you are older.... No thanks, Ill take the coke. put it on the reapers tab.

But fit people have better quality of life.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3567315/

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/PhysicalActivity...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22249758

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051110215438.h...

If anything, an unfit person is slowly dribbling in a towel throughout his relatively shorter life.

You live a shorter, low quality life. I don't see how you see that a positive over living a longer, healthier life with may be a bit of suffering at the end compared to suffering throughout your life(out of breath, joint pains, clogged arteries...)