[potato3732842]

Kinda funny that after everything he did Parkinsons was what got him.

[darth_avocado]

What’s amazing is that 75.8 is the life expectancy of men in the US and he managed to cross it with the lifestyle he had.

[DaveExeter]

Life expectancy of men *at birth*. Once you've made it to ten years old, those statistics don't apply any more.

In other words, the average lifespan of a 10-year old boy is not 65.8 additional years.

[sshine]

Even then, you’d be surprised that his lifestyle didn’t impact his lifespan more negatively.

But you’ll have chain smokers who live into their nineties.

[potato3732842]

His alcohol consumption levels usually result in death in one's 50s, maybe 60s, maybe 40s.

[jajko]

So don't hold the suspense - how much is it then and how does it stack with rest of developed world?

[nartho]

Well it's 78.8 in the UK

[raverbashing]

Well but he spent a good time living in the US so it kinda averages out

[thinkingtoilet]

It is astonishing, isn't it? I'm reading Sirens of Titan right now and luck is such a big theme in it. You can always increase your odds by healthy living, but nothing is guaranteed. It really comes down to dumb luck.

[x0x0]

Keith Richards is alive. Hard to think of a more improbable thing.

[thr0waway001]

Please implore your children and children’s children to leave a better world for Keith Richards.

[FireBeyond]

Keith Richards actually died sometime in 1983, but the doctors forgot to tell him.

[bitwize]

Occasionally he spends a year dead for tax purposes.

[EvanAnderson]

I once saw him described as an animate assemblage of drugs.

[metadaemon]

Did you mean a better world than Keith?

[EvanAnderson]

Presumably Keith will outlast your children.

[elwell]

/whoosh/

[racl101]

yup

[doubled112]

I always assumed it was the drugs keeping him going, but in reality I think he quit them a long time ago.

[bigmattystyles]

I always liked the bill hicks bit about him finding another ledge.

[raydev]

> It really comes down to dumb luck

Let's not forget Ozzy's immense wealth that allowed him the best medical care and health/fitness programs in his later years. He stopped living "hard" by the 2000s, at least by his 1980s standards.

Had he kept living hard he wouldn't have made it.

[smt88]

Drug use is a risk factor for Parkinson's. A lot of drugs affect dopamine production or reuptake, and that seems to be able to cause a reduction in dopamine production later in life.

[morkalork]

Some of the symptoms (like tremors) of withdrawal after long term stimulant/cocaine/amphetamine use are similar to parkinsons too since both cause a shortage of dopamine in the brain. I kinda wonder if one could accidentally mask early symptoms of parkinsons.