[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.