Yes, DO find the u tube video where Dr. Zeke Emanuel speaks and answers questions because he did NOT ever say “why I hope to die at 75” = that title was made up by the Atlantic and he wasn’t happy about it = so, the u tube
video is titled WHY I EXPECT TO BE ALIVE AT 75 !! Big difference. I think his opinion that too many of the magic pills or magic diets we are bombarded with every day, are misleading to say the least, and, geared toward those who wish to profit off of misleading information. I will be 75 this year, and I do not hope to die. I can maybe, slightly, understand someone at age 20 saying this, but, that is because they are so young and think that anyone 75 must have one foot in the grave. Some of our hard working and overworked pioneer relatives probably were in bad shape by age 75. They did not have the benefit of life saving medical procedures that we all enjoy now, and, they would have loved to have had those options if only we could ask them! We all need to remember that it’s a whirlwind of circumstances that bring us to whatever level of health we are currently in, at whatever age. Making decisions to try things that our caring doctors ask us to try, is, ultimately up to us. Nothing wrong with that. But please never be mislead by a publication, like the Atlantic, when they make up headlines and claim that so and so famous person, said so. Do research. This is your life, no one else’s. My personal belief holds fast to God’s word concerning life and the end of life. No one can force you to “believe” anything that you choose not to believe, but I think it is important to do research and be open to finding peace in your soul. Last year I had a bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction. I have an appointment next week for the surgical PA to check a BB sized bump that I hope is simply a fat necrosis bump. But I want to find out and I do not plan to stop attending to myself just because I am a certain age. I had polio at age 1. I have a brother who thinks life would have been better for everyone if I had died. That is his opinion and he is still allowed to have it. He is not the one who endured everything that went along with having polio, nor would I wish it on him. Many leg surgeries, feet with rods and screws, etc. I firmly believe that all of us, whatever our medical treatments, have helped future generations have better treatments , simply from what was learned from ours. Everything in life is this way and I don’t mind or hate that I have been a “lab rat” as some people describe it. Live and learn.