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‘RANDOM FLUFF #51’ [OC] (random nonsense from my archive) (feddit.nl)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/custardfist@feddit.nl
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- - - This is a one-panel comic - - - Caregivers look after elderly residents in a nursing home. The residents display varying levels of vitality. One caregiver says to another: “DEATH IS A SPECTRUM, YOU KNOW.”

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[–] 9 points 4 months ago

That's a little too real

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Life is a spectrum, including (but not limited to) death.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Exactly. We're all slowly dying right now. Your life is killing you

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Yes, but up to about 23, you're growing and maturing. You peak then, and after that then you're really just dying slowly.

    Also related: our brains slow down as we age so we perceive time as going faster (like for kids, the summer is forever, for old people, the days flash by). So from a human's perspective, for an average lifespan, we perceive half way about at 23. So it you're over 23, from your perspective, you're over half way through your time.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    That "peak" is a subjective value judgment weighing different parts of the spectrum in specific ways. The peak at 23 specifically refers to a weighing that attempts to quantify US military personnel in the 1940s' expected productivity in front-line combat roles.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Damn, aren't I lucky to be 23. So does it mean my body will only deteriorate from now on?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yup. Enjoy it while you can.

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