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Default Is anyone here *not* over-the-hill? {was: Cooking again:)Birthday dinner.}

On 12/10/2013 11:31 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Tue 10 Dec 2013 08:41:49p, sf told us...
>
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:13:16 -0500, jmcquown
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I worked with a man who was only about 50. He slipped, fell, hit
>>> his head. He was dazed momentarily, but up and walking around,
>>> talking, working. A couple of days later he went into a coma.
>>> He was rushed to the hospital. He never regained consciousness.
>>> Apparently he had an undetected aneurysm as a result of the
>>> fall.

>>
>> I remember when I was in my 30's one of my acquaintances
>> (wonderful person) in her mid to late '50's was suddenly dead.
>> She was very active, had a great voice - even sang in clubs for
>> fun. Apparently she had fallen on her stairs and hit her head.
>> The aneurysm killed her. I can think of worse ways to go, but it
>> wasn't something you'd choose.
>>

>
> I can't think of any way I'd choose to die except asleep in my bed.
>

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to be hit by a bus. OUCH.

What's with all this morbid talk anyway? We're still alive and some of
us are still cooking. I don't know about the 39 year old OP but I'm
still enjoying life.

Jill