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Choices matter: Your toolbox to avoiding premature death

Your toolbox for evading premature death (Photo: iStock)

I was recently fascinated by a medical essay titled 'Death is not the enemy'. The essay was pretty candid about human death being normal, and an inescapable finality.

But the author, a prolific medical writer, didn't stop there. He went on to spell out things that shouldn't be regarded as normal. Premature death, disability, pain, prolongation of dying and human suffering are the real enemies according to him. And he thinks all those things are avoidable.

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