Why do Presidents live so long?

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Have you noticed how our ex-presidents seem to be living longer and longer?
George HW Bush was 94, Jimmy Carter is also 94 right behind him.
Why is that? Do they get better healthcare than we do? I think so.
 
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VolStrom said:
Have you noticed how our ex-presidents seem to be living longer and longer?
George HW Bush was 94, Jimmy Carter is also 94 right behind him.
Why is that? Do they get better healthcare than we do? I think so.
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Clinton won't.
 
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I'd say that to run for, and then be POTUS, you have to have nearly limitless energy. So I'd say its less a function of them living long because they were President, and more that they tried to be President because they had the things that make a person live long.

Me, I'd hate it because it would be very tough to take naps.
 
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Because it is good for your health to know that over 100 million people despise you?
 
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Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush 41 I'd say generally took care of themselves throughout their lives. Also of course access to great medical care - wealthy people tend to live longer. I bet Obama will live a long time too, although he did smoke a lot in his younger days.

What's really crazy is how long some of the very early presidents lived. John Adams lived to be freaking 90 years old, Thomas Jefferson 83, James Madison 85, John Quincy Adams 80, Andrew Jackson 78. Once you get past Jackson there are a string of Presidents that died in their 50s or 60s. They are some of the longest living Presidents even when including the recent ones. Wasn't the average life expectancy in those days something like 45 years old? John Adams I think outlived some of his grandchildren.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'd say that to run for, and then be POTUS, you have to have nearly limitless energy. So I'd say its less a function of them living long because they were President, and more that they tried to be President because they had the things that make a person live long.

Me, I'd hate it because it would be very tough to take naps.
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President John Adams was never constantly campaigning for president, and he lived to be a toothless 90 years if age, at a time when doctors bled you if you became sick.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
President John Adams was never constantly campaigning for president, and he lived to be a toothless 90 years if age, at a time when doctors bled you if you became sick.
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That is probably why he made it that long. He didn't have to go through a battery of tests and given 20 different medications.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
I don't know about Presidents but Dick Cheney stold a heart that should have gone to someone else.
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Huh. Well since 335 patients in the prior year over age 65 received a transplant and around 15% of transplants are over age 65 I’d submit you’re FOS as usual. Plus it happened 6 years ago and he’s still around so there’s more data showing how FOS you are too!
 
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President James Madison was not a man who had pristine health, even as a young man. He many times spent weeks in bed suffering with one malady or another, yet he lived to be 84 years old.
 
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How bout Andy Jackson? Shooting it out with people and carrying around a bullet in his chest. Had all kinds of other ailments and no medical care to speak of. Too mean to die...lived to 78.
 
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