This is most likely due to rich Americans being dumb as shit and treating stuff like cancer with coffee enemas
Steve jobs gleefully running into the arms of death like a long lost child through sheer stupidity
Trying to treat pancreatic cancer with a fruitarian diet despite catching it early enough to attempt effective treatment
Then buying a house in Louisiana so he could try to buy his way up the organ transplant list only to be told that you can't transplant a pancreas and also that it wouldn't cure his cancer anyway
Like, fuck, I have to laugh at it because Jesus Christ
shit he really went for the transplant as last ditch
I know!
I read about it somewhere and it's just wedged into my mind as the first thing I think of when people bring him up
Like imagine catching an early break on possibly the deadliest cancer out there where surgery has abysmal success rate. The gods gave you a layup and you fumble it so bad. So you try to get another deal with the gawds after you spat in their face by buying that house and they give you the motherfucker you wanted this
You can totally transplant a pancreas. Typically it's done on its own or with kidney transplants as a last-ditch procedure for diabetes. I'm not sure why it wasn't an option for him beyond maybe the cancer already spreading by that point.
He had the rare kind that isn't essentially a death sentence and still tried to cure it by drinking fruit
It works in video games when I get stabbed, shot, burned, blown up, soul snatched. Why won't it work in real life
My guess is this is probably 100% diet and exercise rather than healthcare as wealthy Americans will have access to very good healthcare already
Just because they have access doesn't mean they listen to doctors
Poor Europeans probably eat a lot healthier than wealthy Americans
Slop in Europe is less full of straight up toxic industrial waste.
Real Americans don't do woke shit like eating vegetables, using their legs or having healthcare. That is for gay French commies!
: “Oh cough come on cough kiddo! I had to cough take away your walkable cough cities and cough destroy the environment! I cough just want to TOUGHEN YOU U- dies before 80.”
Yeah or those soy Vikings
vote against regulating industry to protect the environment and investing in infrastructure to protect the things everyone uses
die
This is fine. We don't need to talk about this too much.
Pump those numbers up let's goooooo
good
78 years versus the other areas that were in the low 80's.
That's not that big of a difference.
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