Well, in the mercy of God we are normally unaware of our personal expiration date.

You have an expiration date, and despite your wanting to claim control over life circumstances, you're not entitled to know when your expiration date will be.

If my expiration date is set, then it doesn't matter if I smoke or eat a gallon of ice cream a day; however, the quality of my life between now and that point will be improved considerably by eating well and taking good care of myself.

It is modern medicine's best guess, a 50/50 shot, a coin flip of a lifespan. I would not want to know my expiration date or median survival.

Expiration date

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