How Will You Die?: How How Rich Your Country Is Determines Your Death

Death, you're gonna have to think about it eventually. Don't obsess over it now but be aware that it stalks you.

You're life is fine and dandy up to the age of 23. Thats when you're body's cells start dying quicker than they can be produced. A slippery slope of aging, impotence and death soon becomes all-embracing.

So depending where you live. Your death can be a quick glorious demise, or a slow-painful statistic. In the Horn of Africa, you can be a Somali Pirate dying at the hands of an American UAV trying to capture an Indian vessel. Or an Eritrean soldier, killed in a clash with Ethiopians near Badme. Thats what happened in 2000. There was trench warfare, armour clashes and everything. THAT is a glorious death.

Wasting away in a retirement home day-dreaming about pudding is not. Clearly, something is wrong with our cultural values. In a society when you have most of the things you want somewhat available, dying is much more painful I find. Chronic diseases plague us Westerners.

Strokes, Heart Disease, various cancers and alzheimers. What a way to go, by forgetting everything.

People in 3rd World Countries. Whom, I think are leading heroic lives, dying in battle or getting carried off by plagues have more interesting deaths. Malaria, Diarrhea, AIDS and Car Accidents carry these poor fellows off. Then again, dying because your intestines can't absorb the liquid from your shit isn't the cleanest way to die. Neither is a bad car accident. Trust me, I've been to a 3rd world country, you get into a car accident once every week. People do not obey traffic laws over there. Or any laws period. If its not a cultural taboo, do it. The general mantra of a 3rd World Country.

Seriously though, the rich lifestyle of the West is killing us. Working those stupid desktop office jobs while lunching at McDonalds every other day is calls for a heart attack, if not begging for one. Even the ones who dont consume that shit will die because their environment has so many carcinogens. Even a healthy jogger will drink out of a plastic bottle which is a carcinogen. Not to mention the stupid things we do like smoking. Doesn't matter what the drug is, inhaling a burnt substance into your lungs isn't a smart thing.

In a 3rd World Country, you will probably die because your government doesn't give a shit about you. You may have terrible water, worse homes, non functioning hospitals and clinics and even worse road conditions. You will die because of neglect and you know it. You become hyper religious at a young age to secure your placement in whatever after-life you believe in but you know death comes quick. Only a quater of people living in those countries live past the age of 70.

People in 2nd world countries die because of a messed up combo of those two extremes but countries like Russia are different. Russians simply live too hard. They drink to much, gamble too much, stress-out too much, shoot up too much, have sex too much. Too much, too young. They live 10+ years younger than us and for good reason. But, whats better. Dying from alcohol poisoning after the craziest night of clubbing in Moscow, or dying after 50 years behind a desk. That's up to you to decide.