There's another confounding factor: healthcare. Entire avenues of medical treatments are geared toward draining away life savings while maintaining illness. Cancer is the most notable vector, and it's been on a steady incline our whole lives. It's almost like way more effort went into finding how to cause cancer than ever went into stopping it.
The medical and agricultural industries have pushed unhealthy lifestyle to the point where American doctors now assume the vast majority of their patients are going to eventually be diabetic. They're not confused about how it happens, but it's unprofitable for them to tell people, "If you don't change your ways, you're going to lose a foot to the diabeetus."
That's a terrible thing for a family to go through, and all too common for as far as we've come as a species. My heartfelt condolences for your and your family's loss.
There's another confounding factor: healthcare. Entire avenues of medical treatments are geared toward draining away life savings while maintaining illness. Cancer is the most notable vector, and it's been on a steady incline our whole lives. It's almost like way more effort went into finding how to cause cancer than ever went into stopping it.
The medical and agricultural industries have pushed unhealthy lifestyle to the point where American doctors now assume the vast majority of their patients are going to eventually be diabetic. They're not confused about how it happens, but it's unprofitable for them to tell people, "If you don't change your ways, you're going to lose a foot to the diabeetus."
That's a terrible thing for a family to go through, and all too common for as far as we've come as a species. My heartfelt condolences for your and your family's loss.