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9 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

I have to much to live for, therefore fear of dying.

 

Eventually we will all die, it's a given, but I will never be ready, having worked my rear off all of my life, saving & suffering and having watched mates, younger than most pass early, family members pass early, and me almost passing early, you can say that was my wake up call, I can't get enough of life.

 

Waking up every morning is a new day, a new beginning and I want to breath in all of that fresh free air as I awake just before dawn, besides I still have a couple of dozen young fillies to take before I go.

 

But when I do go, not waking up would be my preference.

 

What was your near death experience?

10 hours ago, steven100 said:

I'm not sure ......    when the doors are lit bright, which I did see in my sleep sometimes, I have to accept and walk through them.

All my relatives are gone and most friends are gone so it's very very close to the end for me.

I've always had the impression that you're a younger sort of guy? But this post makes it sound like you're at death's door. Funny how social media conveys sometimes very inaccurate impressions.

Do you have any kids? This would be a fear of mine also, to be the last man standing and have no family or friends left. A lonely death.    

5 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

I do not want a prolonged or painful death scenario.

Prefer, as most of us would, for it to fast and efficient and painless.

Have faced my mortality twice and it was ok, except for fractured sternum after an enthusiastic resus.

 

Bloody hell, what happened??

21 hours ago, Nojohndoe said:

Not afraid of death because have lived long enough to come to terms with it as an inevitable.

My fear is that it will not be quick and suffer the ignominy of extended disfunctionality and being burdensome .

That's interesting, how old are you?

What the hell is a 'tar ball'?

On 10/1/2021 at 11:08 AM, RotBenz8888 said:

And the post covid syndrome will last for many years. 

No it won't, that's unnecessarily pessimistic, although probably an understandable statement given how everyone is feeling right now. But, we can learn from history. And history from after the 1918-20 Spanish flu epidemic shows that everything rebounded quickly and came back stronger than before.

3 hours ago, bangkok19 said:

In the words of the George Harrison song......

But it's gonna take money
A whole lotta spendin' money
It's gonna take plenty of money
To do it right, child

It's gonna take time
Whole lot of precious time
It's gonna take patience and time, mmm
To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it
To do it right, child

I went through the Tourist then Marriage Visa process when this song was a hit!

It was much cheaper back then...  I do remember though giving them MUCH MORE paperwork than what they were asking. Every bit helps...  plus tell the truth!

 

PS  -  I hate all the pop-up ads and extra large text on this site now.  

Interesting. That was the late eighties. Are you still with that same lady from more than 30 years ago?

17 hours ago, Lingba said:

give us your money...oh please we want your money...we dont crae about anything else..just give us your money so we can scam you in the end

that's a bit harsh...

8 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

I recently helped an 86 year old go back to Thailand, on a 45 day exempt. Ubon Joe helped a lot and sent me a link for COVID-19 insurance which covered the 45 day visa, 

He did not know off any company that does the health insurance over 75 years old ,unless he’s found one 

I did manage to contact a broker who’s half thai American and he said Cigna would do it but the premium was $20000 Nz per annum.

This is a big problem, and my friend will have to negotiate his own visa extension 15 days before his visa runs out. He said he knows how to do that.

So there’s plenty of expats in Thailand at present over 75 ,how do you guys get insurance???

This is encouraging, to see an 86 yr old going to Thailand! Just shows me there's still at least 25 years of life left in me yet!

Guy must've been stud when he was a young 'un if he's still chasing them at 86!

Boring video made pointless due to repetitive content, I saw the same people several times.

And people are starving, yet still the Beach Rd girls are getting fatter year by year ???? There must be some kind of inverse reaction at play here as it's weird that a large proportion of poor people are so overweight. 

13 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Received my first Pfizer shot; hardly any side effects, except feeling a bit sleepy the same day, and getting very slight and short headaches (barely noticeable) on the second day. I'm a bit worried that the vaccine was perhaps 'wrongly' handled or 'not working' due to being nearly expired. 

You should be. Human error is commonplace.

13 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Received my first Pfizer shot; hardly any side effects, except feeling a bit sleepy the same day, and getting very slight and short headaches (barely noticeable) on the second day. I'm a bit worried that the vaccine was perhaps 'wrongly' handled or 'not working' due to being nearly expired. 

You should be. Human error is commonplace.

On 5/4/2021 at 6:40 PM, robblok said:

Just keep on lifting, constancy works best. 

 

I recently got back after a couple of months of not lifting. Easy to get back in the game. My home gym has now moved from my old home to my new. 

 

Doing a full body kind of training 3 days a week. 

 

Squats 3 x 8

Deadlifts 3 x 8

Bench press 4 x 8 -10

Military press  4 x 8 - 10

One arm rows 4 x 8

Triceps and biceps 

Abs

 

Now going to add rowing on the rowing machine on the non lifting days. Its amazing how fast it all comes back. 

 

Maybe after 2 months of full body ill be doing split again or something else.

 

Bought a special weight lifting tracker

https://www.thisisbeast.com/en

 

Will start using it once it arrives and after my 2 months of full body. I want to see what velocity training can do plus its one of the few trackers that works good for weightlifting.

That's a decent workout! Do you do all 8 of those exercises on each of the 3 days? I'm lucky to get through the first 3 in one session and feel quite exhausted after. But I do have quite a long rest period between them, the squats in particular, and this seems to lengthen the time for the top 3 exercises to about an hour each session. I do 4 sets for each.  

1 minute ago, Tropicalevo said:

My son thought the same.

He was 37 when he died.

Please think about your family and make a will.

I'm sorry to hear that about your son, that must've been terrible for you. I have a 33 yr old son. You're absolutely right, I need to make a will.

Morbid subject. I hope to have about 25-30 years left in me before I need to confront this issue at a personal level. 

Blatant and massive corruption on show for all to see. No attempt made to cover it up as he and others of his ilk know they are untouchable. Sometimes I feel sorry for the people in these corrupt countries, but at the same time I understand they have to stand up and fight for change. That means the spilling of blood and loss of loved ones for the greater cause. That's what western countries have had to do to.

14 hours ago, steven100 said:

i bet london to a brick on ... the shop won't have and certainly the old codger won't have.

Thais are not noted for having insurance cover ....

"....old codger"?? He was only 60....

This is where the old glory hole in the wall sex would come in very handy. They can establish a new type of venue to cater for such practice and then, for more reality & excitement, swap out the old timber wall type partition and replace with a perspex screen.

30 minutes ago, thairastawoman said:

 

so you must be right, bodybuilders do not need cardia as the rest of the population !

so funny people around here...

 

 

You misunderstood. Compound type exercises give you a cardio workout at the same time as a strength workout.

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Interesting. My Thai wife is very attractive and considerably younger than I am. She has never once mentioned those "dirty looks from Thais", that you refer to. If anything, indifference or ambivalence, which is perfectly fine by me. 

 

However, when we were living on Samui, and when we travel back to the US, or when we were traveling together in Vietnam, we got looks. The Vietnamese were hostile towards an Asian woman being with a Western man. The foreign women highly disapprove of me being with a lovely, younger woman, and I love every minute of that. It is as if not jumping over crazy hoops, or being a centi-millionaire is felonious behavior.

 

Many foreign men look at me with nothing but envy. 

 

It is all quite amusing. 

What's the age difference? That will be the main factor in how many dirty looks you get

2 hours ago, JomtienRay said:

I'm staying..

lived and had my own business in Thailand for many years. 

Thai wife, 5 kids..

I'm retired and divorced now.. family all live in Aus.

I moved us all to Aus about 13 years ago for the kids education, which in hindsight, was the only positive in the move.. 

The 10 years there were for me, the most stressful time of my life.. my wife turned into a narcissistic psychopath, believing and following advice from all the new Thai ladies she formed a group with, who were mostly old jealous bar girls who all wanted to be the "P"..

I'm 74 and underwent 10 years of medical trauma in Aus.. chronic heart failure, 9 operations to remove malignant cancer tumours, Chem X 5 times, radiotherapy X 3 times, chronic kidney failure.. the list goes on..

During this time, my wife firmed an opinion, based on the expert advice of he Thai friends, that she should not assist me in anyway, and wait for my certain death.. inherit everything and have a good time.. I was hospitalised 6 times with serious illnesses, and she chose not to visit me once..

Well.. thru perseverance, excercise, diet and medical assistance, I survived, much to her chagrin..

Retired now in Thailand last 3 years..

Spend about 6 months in Esarn in the farm, and 6 months in my condo on Jomtien beach.

Thru my 30 odd years living in Thailand, I've seen many government's come and go.. many changes in immigration etc, 3 coups.. 

AND.. at the end of the day, nothing much has changed for me here, over that time.

Have a new gf who causes me no stress and takes care of me very well.. a few great expat friends, and many Thai friends and ex colleagues..

And a GREAT life style..

Thank you Thailand..

I believe this govt WILL change within the foreseeable future, and life will continue and improve, after covid..

No greener pastures for me mate.. ????????????????????????????????

 

Wow, what a story that is!! I bet it would be great to sit down and have a chin wag over a beer about all you've been through.

You're a survivor if ever there was one, my hat goes off to you mate!

BTW, how long after you arrived in Aus did the narcissistic psychopath tendencies start to show?  ????????

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There is no evidence that Covid is more transmissible than the Spanish flu was. None. If anything it is to the contrary. And the Spanish Flu was infinitely more deadly. Of course, the medical facilities available then were not as good, but as we have seen, hospitals seem to have been only partially effective, when treating Covid, and respirators are of questionable value.

 

On September 29, the global COVID-19 death toll topped 1 million people, and as of November 17, the figure is 1,332,470 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. As of today, it is up to 4,249,322 deaths. We don't have an accurate death count for Spanish flu, but estimates range from 17 to 50 million people across the world, and there were possibly even more. The CDC says an estimated one-third of the world's population was infected with the virus, resulting in at least 50 million deaths.

 

And the world population was only 1.8 billion at the time. 

 

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/how-are-spanish-flu-and-covid-19-alike

 

Another huge difference was the apparent ability of the Spanish flu to take out younger, healthier people. It appears to have been far more deadly.

 

While the 1918 influenza killed a disproportionate number of 25–40 year olds, COVID-19 mostly affects those over the age of 65, especially those also with comorbidities. Those aged 25–40 year olds accounted for 40% of deaths from the 1918 influenza, whereas those in the 18–44-year-old range account for only 3.9% of deaths from COVID-19.

 

https://pmj.bmj.com/content/97/1147/273

 

Yeah, yeah, studied and well aware of all that. A couple of points though, the first of most significance is that the 1918 pandemic was a flu, not a coronavirus. It was spread at a much greater rate than today since most of the world was at war.  

And yes, it killed more. The predominant & most obvious reason for this is that health facilities back then were not as advanced as what they are now. They were primitive.

And also, a common side effect of flu is bacterial infection and since antibiotics were not available back then, many people died of such bacterial infection that would not die from the same today.

Other than that, what was the point of your post?

I'm not really arguing either way the characteristics of flus/coronaviruses, I simply responded to the previous poster to state that this pandemic, like all others, will come to an end as demonstrated by history.