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You know what's more painful? Dying of a heart attack. Being bedridden. Joint failure. The inability to walk a few city blocks. Diabetes. Having to ride in a mobility scooter. Or even the inability to keep pace with your children when they're playing.

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These things aren't inevitable, scaring people into exercise won't work. But even if they were, it wouldn't be terrible to die '"on my back, lying on my many rolls of fat, scarcely uttering a word, taking labored breaths, and eating my fill," for of all the ways a man might die, an excess of luxury was the only truly happy death'. (From http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/kjn/people/heavies...)

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