Health and long life or pleasure and a shorter one?

How far will you torture yourself to prolong your tortured life?

Continued smoking would have put me in a wheelchair and made me little better than a paralytic, so I quit in 1999.

Since then it's been a constant war with obesity - successful on and off - and its threat of stroke, heart attack, and diabetes type II.

Interest and happiness can certainly clash.

But if you can delay death only by taking out of life the things you are still able to enjoy, what then?

At some point you have to say to hell with it.

Your doctor will disapprove, but he is wrong.

He thinks longevity is everything.

That is inhuman and absurd.

What should the 400 pound man do?

What does "To thine own self be true" mean to him?

Look at poor Marlon Brando.

Did he see that coming when he was 30?

I think not.