And there is no one to change your Nappy. 
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Yes but the old are more likely die than the young.Itās a probability thing.
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Yes, Besoekerā¦the older you get the more chance there is. Not odds I like, reallyā¦ 
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Errā¦quite a long time would be niceā¦!
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Well thatās very convoluted ā¦
I might as well say that weāre both closer to death today but tomorrow you may be closer than I am or you may not.
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But we will both be closer to it than we are today. Time and death have an arrangement, and thatās how it works. 
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If you aināt died before, no one can speak with authority.
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True ā¦ but you and a five year old could be sitting side by side and he might be closer to death than you ā¦ should he catch meningitis tomorrow.
āThe Appointment in Samarraā
(as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933])
The speaker is Death
There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
The Book Thief was narrated by Death. Good book too.
I suppose we would both have an equal chance of dying from some none age related cause, but then I have the age related causes to take into account on top of that. 
Growing old must be shite 
, if that happened to one, not sure tips would be any use, you would need to refer to your youth, if you actually had one. 
I donāt mean to be at all morbid about this. I have been seen a lot of things, known a lot of people, and had a lot of experiences. But, if I kicked the bucket tomorrow I would have had a very full life as one might say.
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Well you know whatā¦if only more people could think like that. I donāt quite mean die happy as such, but be at peace with the life that they have had.
A Half full glass of life.
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is there a book on all this ?
There are lots apparently. 
Could it be true that, if you get into a lift with 30 children and one billionaire, your life expectancy, on average, improves massively, whilst, at the same time, on average, you become extremely rich?
Unless the rope, holding the lift up, happens to snap!
Statistics !!!
