To CRON or not to CRON?

September 25, 2002

I am encountering a lot of pressure lately to give up this " nutty "

CRON thing.

People who are genuinely concerned about me believe it is detrimental

to my health and life. Of course I disagree. But not with enough

certainty to completely quiet the little inner voice that says " what

if ... " .

I was not able to donate blood last week because I was under the

weight limit (federal law, fear of lawsuits etc). I wanted to help

out a relative but was also fearful of passing out - so ok. Now this

fact is being used as a pressure tactic to try to scare me off

CR. " If I don't even weigh enough to donate blood what will happen

to me if I am in an accident and lose too much blood? " . I don't

know. The old CRONie accidents debate again ....

I suppose it's strictly a rational matter of estimating the

likelyhood of dying in an accident versus dying of one of the

diseases such as cancer that CR tends to reduce the incidence of.

Accidents did seem a pretty big number on that list of Alans. And of

course one may have a greater likelyhood of dying *younger* in an

accident ....

I've always worried more about dying of a disease of old age than

dying in an accident though. We all have what we believe are our

life scripts and our destiny (how silly in reality we *can't* know

our destiny) that encompass what we *believe* is *likely* to happen

in our life. And my life script has always been to die of cancer or

something after a long slow degeneration. My script is likely

based on the fact that most of my relatives lived long but suffered

greatly in old age. Hence that's what I have always wanted to

prevent. But I can't be too far off statistically can I?

I am also told I will die of anorexia because my heart will get eaten

away but that isn't very likely in my book . I haven't taken CR

*that* far - nor do I intend to. I was under 110 before I even

started CRON although now I am even more so.

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a cronie rant?

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