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It is astonishing, isn't it? I'm reading Sirens of Titan right now and luck is such a big theme in it. You can always increase your odds by healthy living, but nothing is guaranteed. It really comes down to dumb luck.


Keith Richards is alive. Hard to think of a more improbable thing.


Please implore your children and children’s children to leave a better world for Keith Richards.


Keith Richards actually died sometime in 1983, but the doctors forgot to tell him.


Occasionally he spends a year dead for tax purposes.


I once saw him described as an animate assemblage of drugs.


Did you mean a better world than Keith?


Presumably Keith will outlast your children.


/whoosh/


yup


I always assumed it was the drugs keeping him going, but in reality I think he quit them a long time ago.


I always liked the bill hicks bit about him finding another ledge.


> It really comes down to dumb luck

Let's not forget Ozzy's immense wealth that allowed him the best medical care and health/fitness programs in his later years. He stopped living "hard" by the 2000s, at least by his 1980s standards.

Had he kept living hard he wouldn't have made it.




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