Author: Philip Jones
The planning of your imaginary prospective heart attack demands your serious attention. Dead serious. We dare not approach this grave topic in a funny, flippant or frivolous fashion. Absolutely not!
But I must admit to making one deadly serious mistake more than 40 years ago. My new bride and I emigrated from Wales to Canada. Two enthusiastic teenagers. If we had been given all the pertinent facts, we would have selected another country. New Zealand perhaps. Maybe I should have become a shepherd.
An Unpublicized Statistic
The information we received about Canada was most appealing but now, decades later, I discover the one key piece of information that was deliberately suppressed: every individual who moves to this continent eventually dies. The same goes for every person born here. How dare they keep this a secret!
Instead of getting better, the situation is apparently getting worse. More North Americans have died in the past ten years than in any previous decade in history. And the outlook for the next ten years is even more deadly.
One hundred per cent of North Americans die. 100%! What a shocking record! This morbid statistic is not widely publicized, for obvious reasons. The shame is too intense; the embarrassment overwhelming.
No legislation mandates disclosure of this deplorable situation. No judicial commission has ever investigated this continuing disgrace. There has been no referral of this avoidable tragedy to any international forum. The medical profession has taken no effective remedial action. Up to the highest level of government, complacency reigns supreme. Nobody seems to care!
Publicized Statistics
In both the USA and Canada, the most common cause of death is cardiovascular disease. This involves a problem somewhere in the heart or the blood vessels, commonly resulting in heart attacks or strokes.
The proportion of North American women dying from this condition is even higher than among the men. But the females typically have to wait a little longer than the males before the disease becomes apparent. Men are in more of a hurry to get life over with!
Regardless of where we live, life is becoming increasingly stressful. This is attributable both to external factors and to our own bad habits.
Avoiding Any B.S. (?)
If you want to exercise some degree of control over the timing of your upcoming heart attack, you probably need to make at least one change. Try to reduce the potency of those elements in your life that put your health at grave, grave-related risk.
The sombre reality is that you could one day be subjected to incisive, intrusive b.s. at the hands of a coronary surgeon. As you know, b.s. is the common, colloquial abbreviation for bypass surgery. Would you like to defer the condition that could necessitate this procedure to a time that better suits your personal convenience?
Because bypass surgery is unpleasant, its abbreviation is widely used as a dismissive epithet. This term expresses contempt for infuriating observations that contribute to elevated stress levels.
Thankfully, I have never been subjected to any b.s. Angioplasty was good enough for me. So the artery is held open at the critical locations by a couple of metal coils from the local Hardware store. They come with a 90-day warranty on the parts . . . I am not quite sure about the labour.
The Stress Vaccine
Vaccination is another way to delay your personalized myocardial infarction. As you know, there is a vaccine available for stress. Unfortunately it is in short supply, so access is limited to those in essential services: morticians, beauticians and politicians, so you might not be eligible. Incidentally, these three groups have something else in common: they are all in the business of burying the truth!
© Copyright, Philip Jones, 2009. All Rights Reserved. <>
About the Author
Philip Jones is a motivational speaker based in Calgary, Alberta Canada.
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