Afraid I'll die soon

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As I'm nearing 40, I keep thinking about how many people who died in their 40s and 50s.

Michael Jackson
Prince
Chadwick Boseman
Whitney Houston
Steve Irwin
Dwayne McDuffie
Darwyn Cooke
Andre the Giant
Freddie Mercury
Elvis Presley
Judy Garland
Nat King Cole

Plus some people I knew in my personal life. I knew a friend of my uncle who committed suicide in his late 40s, and my stepfather's cousin died around 50. I remember my parents going to the funeral of a neighbor who died of a heart attack at 40.

I know there are some older folk on here who are doing well. But I'm extremely overweight and suffer from depression and eating disorders. I often feel out of breath and have many aches from excess weight. And I've read that lonely people have significantly shorter lifespans.

Having fewer things in common will certainly improve your odds. You're not rich and famous for starters.

Not being as fat as The King will certainly improve your chances.

What do you expect me to day?

I’m recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. I’m 60 years old. I’m lucky it hasn’t spread.

I’m taking the bull by the horns. I’m not going to assume I’ll die in my 60s just because some famous person died in his/her 60s.

I’m going to take a proactive approach and not give up.

You’re not old, by any means. Start by walking around the block, and stop ruminating over nonsensical things.

Many people of your weight have successfully lost weight.

I have found (I have not been out riding myself for ages) that cycling can be fun and reduces ones weight in the longrun. At first though one stays about the same as one gains muscle weight instead, but using the gears so one can go light on the pedals means one can go further on the same amount of energy.
A nice 700C wheeled touring bicycle is the best to get but if one is very overweight then consider one that has 26" wheels or beefed up 700C wheels. (I am not sure what wheelsizes one gets in other countries. Mountain bikes have recently changed to 27.5" wheels from the 26"we have been used to though about half of mou tain bikes are still on 26" wheels. If you are considering general cycling rigid frames are going to be more efficient. Full suspension are only in their element when one goes off road.
Hybrid bikes are fairly close to touring bikes.
Overall I prefer a touring bike, and they can be ridden down tracks if one is careful as in a way, bicycles get a similar pounding on rough roads as they do on smoother offroad tracks as it is only when the track turns into small bolders ans holes that one needs a mountain bike, and surprizingly, many hybrd bikes are built just as strongly as many mountain bikes are!

I just found out that Stephen (Rationality Rules) Woodford's father died last year at the age of 52. That's only 13 years older than me.

Yep....and Kirk Douglas recently died at age 103.

In the last 3 or 4 years I have lost about 12 people that I know, all in their 40s and 50s and 60s, from heart attacks. It's scary. When I was younger I never knew anybody who just randomly died, only elderly people but that's to be expected. Most of my relatives, including my boyfriend, are all in the middle-aged bracket and I'm so scared that one of them might randomly die. It's as though everyone I know aged between 45 and 70 are standing in a huge circle with someone with a shot gun in the middle who is shooting one person at random every now and then, and nobody knows who it's going to be next. That's what it feels like to me.

You aren't a statistic. You'll die when you'll die. Your choices often influence your lifespan.