> In article <8e9s24tfb390bolq8qd3tn40ulbe1f6jk2@4ax.com>, Halla said...

>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 23:18:32 +0100, Bear gmail.com>
>> blethered:
>>

>>>In article <1o0s24hbrtij8mi07p18o5fhl3f21v8alb@4ax.com>, Ben newsam
>>>said...

>>>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 22:55:00 +0100, Bear gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>

>>>>>I tick every sodding box on the form and then some.

>>>>
>>>> It's just not fair. Apart from being a bit (well, OK more than a bit)
>>>> overweight, I don't tick any boxes at all. Well, hardly any.

>>>
>>>If it helps cheer you up any, I've been feeling for some time that I'm
>>>well overdue a "big one", so if I do croak suddenly you have my
>>>permission to post "YES! OUTLIVED YOU, YOU SMOKY BASTARD!" :)

>>
>> Hmm, it'll be an asthma-related coughing fit that puts your back out
>> but doesn't actually do any(more) terminal damage to you. ;-)
>>
>> I have to admit though, apart from my friend who had whooping cough as
>> a child and who now sounds like she's excising a lung every time she
>> so much as clears her throat, you produce about the most alarming
>> coughs I've heard.

>
> You haven't heard me of late. Chronic bronchitis beckons :)
>
> I work on the theory that my lungs have always been utterly crap; they
> were utterly crap as a child, then they were utterly crap when I didn't
> smoke, then they've been utterly crap since, and they've got worse over
> time.
>
> Given my lifestyle, I'm one of those people destined to croak sometime
> between tomorrow and about 55. It's something I've been geared up
> towards for some time, and it doesn't actually bother me that much.
>
> Obviously, I'd rather live to be 1,000 years old, but one has to be
> realistic :) I've seen and done more than most people twice my age, so
> if and when it does happen I'd like people to remember the good times
> they had with me, forgive me my sins (of which I'm sure there have been
> many), and generally think well of me, if they can.