Gotta Die Somehow

Yes, but there are better ways

I have become very interested in trying to live a more healthy life style. Whether it’s spiritually, physically, mentally, financially or environmentally. I want to try to do better.

So, I have made certain choices about what I consume and don’t consume.

I try to be organic, and avoid certain foods. I’m not telling you I’m perfect. But, I try.

Often this leads to certain conversations.

Them—“You want some butter for your biscuit.”

Me—“No thanks”

Them—“You don’t like butter?”

Me—“That’s not butter, it’s margarine and I think its poison.”

Them—“Well, you gotta die somehow.”

This will lead to me explaining to them that it’s true. We gotta die somehow. But, Cancer and other preventable diseases are a terrible choice.

If you have watched someone die of cancer then you know what I mean.

My father died of cancer. It started in his colon. It was from Agent Orange in Vietnam or from a million other chemicals he consumed throughout his life.

The government refused to admit that Agent Orange caused colon cancer, until sometime after my fathers death.

A terrible death.

The image still haunts me, and I try to live my life to avoid cancer, and I’m convinced that chemicals in virtually everything we consume and apply to our bodies are the culprits.

(I don’t care what your doctor told you, Karen. When they remove all chemicals and I see that cancer is still rampant in our culture, maybe then I’ll be willing to listen.)

It’s not just cancer.

I watched my grandfather have heart attack, after heart attack. He had several open heart surgeries and stints put in.

I watched him do everything the doctors told him to do. He trusted them. He trusted the corporations who sold him “Heart Healthy” margarine and cooking oils.

I watched him popping his heart healthy pop corn in the worst types of cooking oil. Then swallowing some cheap Wal-Mart “Fish oil” pills full of mercury from China.

Gotta die somehow

It’s how generations of Americans lived.

We trusted people we probably should not have trusted. And still do.

Heart disease is not a good way to die. Spending all your time at the doctor. Wondering if a heart attack or stroke is coming.

My mom ate the same way my grandfather ate. Because she felt that he hung the moon.

She had a stroke. Several to be exact.

I tried everything to get her to eat better, but she treated me like I was stupid.

Her doctor knows best. (Course she doesn’t really listen to him either. I doubt he prescribed Snickers bars and Rice Krispy treats.)

She says that between her strokes and diabetes she just can’t eat the way I claim.

Okay, I give up.

Gotta die somehow

So, what’s the point of all this?

Well, I’m pretty convinced that by eating right, and avoiding chemicals in our diet we can avoid cancers, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and a million other ways to die that are terrible.

I know we gotta die somehow.

But, I think we can make some choices on that.

I don’t know what is the best way to die yet.

But, I’m sure I’ll stumble across it one day.

Suddenly…

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Bio: Chris Bunton is a writer, poet and blogger from Southern Illinois. He has published in several magazines, and has written a poetry eBook called “Against the Man” and an Addiction Recovery eBook called “Made Free: Overcoming Addiction“  a collection of dystopian short stories.“The Future is Coming” and his latest book “The Latter Days‘ is a book on Bible Prophecy and avoiding the deceptions to come.

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