A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
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So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
Misery is a communicable disease.
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
People die because they find living too painful.
People use so much more health care when they live longer.
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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