Sometimes people just die tragically. It sucks but that’s how it goes sometimes. Certainly agree that people should get physicals and all but sometimes people just die. Trying to proclaim every death prior to a ripe old age is preventable (not saying anyone here is doing that), is just trying to cope with the fear that sometimes we just fucking die. [Reply]
And sometimes shit just happens. One of my best friends complained of periodic chest pains over a period of months. He was 50 years old, played on 2 different adult league soccer teams and could run the wheels off most teens. BP and glycedrides were WNL. He went to his doctor numerous times. They ran labs, 12 lead EKGs, stress treadmill and he wore a heart monitor 24/7 for a couple of weeks and they found nothing wrong with his heart. One day he and his wife were on their way to their cabin and pulled off the road to buy some firewood to bring to the cabin and he collapsed and died.
I will add that in many cases of "young" healthy people collapsing and surviving cardiac arrest, many are found to have had a parent and grandparent die of a heart attack at a very young age only to find out they have an electrical cardiac anomaly that may run in the family. These folks are they ones to get an internal defibrillator and live long productive lives. If some of you have family histories of this, let your doctor know.
As far as my friend above, his dad and mom are still alive with no heart issues [Reply]
