Traveling At The Edge Of Life Expectancy

Allow me to deviate a bit from the worlds of Imaging and PACS...I ' m straying way out of my wheelhouse on this one.This starts off with a happy occasion, a Mediterranean cruise. Mrs. Dalai and I recently joined some friends for a two-week trip through various European cities and towns. We had a great time and enjoyed some beautiful sights and wonderful food. I won ' t bore you with every little detail, but suffice it to say the ship was very comfortable, and the destinations were spectacular.Mrs. Dalai and I have travelled extensively over the years, often by sea. Until recently, we were generally the youngest people on the ship, and even when we went to Antarctica, we were in the lowest quartile or quintile age-wise. On this last trip, we were perhaps in the lower third. Still respectable.Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. We cure diseases that were once fatal, and we perpetuate life way beyond the limits our grandparents, or even our parents, thought possible. And that is certainly a good thing. But it can be somewhat of a mixed blessing. With the reasonable expectation of living well into our 70 ' s, 80 ' s, and not uncommonly, our 90 ' s, we may feel less pressure to accomplish the things we should be doing at a younger age. I ' m surrounded by this mentality. Many colleagues and acquaintances are working themselves to death, hoping that they really aren ' t, trying to make hay while the sun shines. If you believe you will be alive and kicking after retirement, and as...
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