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The Parish Pump in an Age of Algorithms By Paracelsus Asia
coverage that equals the best anywhere. By this I mean, no IfPlanning not Immortality what about The 120 Club? for the End of Your Life age increases, no exclusions or loadings for pre-existing
I’m a War Baby as opposed to a Baby Boomer, which I hope will not invalidate anything I have to contribute to a column entitled Boomer Corner. Such generational Who will end with and yourfun, books and your tchotskes, categories are up helpful if not demographically My good friend Alexander Everett in you 2005 aged your gadgets and your garden when change or geographically exact. As atools Wardied Baby (1939-45), 85 on his ranch in Oregon. It wasn’t really a ranch, your cosmic at the of your life? my elder vintage 1944,address I was born in end Britain, as was more like an case Ark. Alexander liked tocousin, hang out brother. In his in 1940. Myjust American if I with animals, certainly not eat them. Hewas an had had one, born in the same year as my brother, It’s probably the easiest and least onerous part of your educationalist and an English eccentric much would not have been a War Baby at all. He would have estate planning to make a list of all your possessions and influenced by Rudolf Steiner and Huxley’s Perennial to havewho been something else, as the US did not decide willcalled get the stuff you have accumulated all these Philosophy, who decamped to Oregon the 1960s enter WW2 until 1941. My wife on the otherinhand, born years. Will Junior get your porno movie collection? Your leading figure in wave the personal inbecoming 1946, was avery much in the first of Baby daughter might like some jewellery or family heirlooms; Boomerdom, what later came to bepopular described as developmentor movement that became at that maybe your best friend would appreciate your gadgets the “Me generation” - don’t ask me why. time. As a young man he had been crippled by polioor garden tools. You have made Last Will Testament? but claimed to have curedyour himself. Heand was, he told Good. That takes of your estate, possessions The Boomer cohort lasted 18 until 1964 andand if meBaby a member ofcare the 120 Club, allyears ofyour whom committed popular music is large part whatpreferences. defines a generation, financial accounts and to settles your Or does it? themselves toalive be ofover 120 years old. Alas, asAlexander I believe itdidn’t does, make it was the Wardied Babies the short Baby it. He 35 and years Boomers who, through the 1950s, 60s and 70s, brought Estate Planning aged 85, which is respectable. us the rock music and radical social change of the era. And later, alas – it must be owned, the neo-liberal and Somewhere around the age of 18 or 19 ourofbodies ceaseis Planning for the dissolution and distribution your estate conservative claw-back that took place as they aged, developing and frombut that moment thea various body not that cumbersome you need toon take few things into prospered and put on weight. The Gen X’ers (1965-76) clocks that comprise what is us,property start their remoseless account, especially if you have or a foot in two and the Millennials (1977-95) are the ones who created countdown to our eventual demise. How countries. Besides the bequests and provisions your last and brought us into an online world and... to the brink of long wetestament last from thatWith point depends on and should appoint anunder executor who will take awill post-human future. allonthat the belt, where good luck, our genes, our lifestyle and how the Centennials (1996 onward) will lead us... we can only care of administrative and financial matters such as much weand have. The wait andmoney see. Whatever thatprocess future isdoesn’t - Waryour Babypension throughor liquidating bank investment accounts, usually start visibly our brung upon Centennial - ittoismanifest something we until have retirement accounts, ensuring your assetsall go to the proper mid-30s orand sothe and, given good genes, ourselves... rest of the planet. beneficiaries, paying any debts or taxes. It could also psychologically we don’t usually start to include selling your home or terminating your lease. And oldretirement until our early 70s. If feel early can be taken aged 50, often the case with foreignas property rights restricted Indonesia, be sure nowadays the middle-aged seekin new occupations you don’t leave behind a can of worms your executor will more in keeping withallthe Here’s what we’re up people against:they have become, then have to deal with. a 50-year old man or woman relocating to Bali today would haveInflammation been born in 1968, a soixante-huitard at birth Chronic and a gilet his in or the her way “re-birth”, you could say. And Even if youjaune haveatlittle of assets or possessions, -you dare one hope, a portent of more equitable days to should have a simple will because if you die intestate Aging people suffer an epidemic of outward come. the legal system in your location decide who gets your inflammatory diseases such aswillarthritis, but chronic inflammation also damages assets, no matter how massive or meager. Things are more Boomer Corner with the exception of myself, a male War brain cells, arterial walls, valves and complicated if you are theheart parent or guardian of a minor Baby, currently comprises four Boomer ladies who could other have structures in the body. Heart attack, child, an informally adopted or sponsored and hardly be better qualified to explore and relay to child the Bali stroke, no heart valve failure, and Alzheimer’s there’s document stating what you want to bequeath Advertiser readership the ins and outs of forging an have orall been linked to inthe them who will care for them afterchronic your Wynn, demise.largely By the extended and pleasant stay Bali. Ines inflammatory cascade. same token,forare you making some provisions for the your responsible birthing the concept, ably set out parameters; Ibu may Kat, lose tellingly the problem faithful staff who theiraddressed jobs and probably haveof no Glycosylation medical insurance, which weighs heavy retirement or financial cushion to fall backon on?so many of us; Susan Tereba movingly recounts her experience Diabetics prematurely, non-diabetics suffer taking careage of her husband but witheven Alzheimer’s in Bali; and Another thing to consider is to make sure that your will does from who this chemical protein molecules Shari, gave the reaction, best steerwhere possible on going grey not contradict the account beneficiaries named on your bind to courtesy glucose of molecules forming non-functioning gracefully, Canggu Max. retirement life insurance like. structures.accounts, Glycosylation is mostpolicies evidentand in the senile The person listed as the beneficiary on each of those Take Ibu Kat’s piece on insurance for example. dementia, stiffening of medical the arteries, and degenerative policies will money even your willwe says otherwise. Her report is quite chilling and theifyounger take aboard diseases ofget thethe eye. the realities of how this industry operatesare theup better it will Make sure your beneficiary designations to date and go for with us down the pike.The message you is, choose early -It sync anyDeficit other legal provisions have made. Methylation and carefully, making sure no horrors payschoose to review the beneficiaries on allthere your aaccounts. You embedded in the small print to swag you when you hit Our not cellular DNA requires constant action for may be ready to die and in fact enzymatic may yet have a long your 70’s. That requires informed research and don’t maintenance and repair. Aging cripples methylation bout of life ahead of you but remember that things change, forget - portability. Then, having consulted a trusted metabolism causing DNA damage that can manifest as people come and go in your life and situations alter. Beand sure professional (Kat mentioned several) get yourself cancer, liver damage and brain cellwill. degeneration. these changes are updated in your your family aboard. Mitochondrial Energy Depletion Including will, make a list of country’s critical documents that the It’s wise toyour check out your own national health entitlements for will its need expatriates too,your if they have will’s executor to settle estate likeone. your The cellular energy powerhouse, the mitochondria, Some, like France its CFE, provide overseas insurance policies,withbank and willinvestment account requirescoverage a complex series of chemicals to maintain essential very reasonable which, with tax a statements, credit atand debit cards,rates pension and critical functions such as transporting nutrients through small top up from the private sector, can give you documents and pertinent information like your Social
conditions, plus emergency evacuation. A major heart Security or National Insurance numbers and makewill sure you operation costing over US$100,000 in Singapore cost the membrane and purging of toxic tell cell your family or carers where or tothe findcell them. This debris. includes under Euro 40,000 in Germany France. Mitochondrial lead to congestive heart failure, passwords sodepletion your online accounts can be accessed. Other muscle weakness, fatigue and neurological disease. directives should address the paying of any Ifpractical you are an Australian, it’s a no-brainer. Australia has taxes one ofdue, theutility best bills, public health payments services or there is (and Any what’s recurring donations. time Hormone Imbalance more, thechange service itself isininyour robust unlike a major occurs life,good makehealth, sure your willthe and venerable NHSreflect in Britain last directives it. or the Bolshevik tendency that Trillions of French cells insystem the human body are synchronised to afflicts the ). function by chemical signals called hormones. Aging End-of-life preferences creates hormonal imbalance that can lead to depression, osteoporosis, coronary heart disease and loss of libido. Now that the estate portion of your bounty is settled, have you given a thought to the other end-of-life decisions you Excess Calcification need to make while still, as they say, of sound and competent mind? What about drawing up a Living Willofthat instruct Calcium ions are transported into and out cellswill through your nearest and dearest how you want to be cared calcium channels into the membrane. Aging disrupts thisfor when you longer in a position to in verbalise process andare theno result is excess calcium the cellscoherent of the thoughts? are very brain, heart Remember valves andthere arterial wallsimportant that caninstructions lead to arteriosclerosis andend Alzheimer’s. in regards to your of life preferences that simply do not belong in a Last Will and Testament since that document will not be read until after your death.
As noted, swank new hospitals do not a good health service make. There are good doctors here and there are times when the art of medicine combined with long experience can work as well, if not better than the science of it. But are there enough such doctors? How is it that we see the same doctors’ names appearing on the practitioner boards in so many different hospitals in Bali? Do they have Fatty Acid Imbalance the modern diagnostic equipment needed and when they do, are the technicians available to operate and translate The body requires essential fatty acids to maintain cell the results effectively? energy output. Aging causes alterations in the enzymes required convert fats into specificsalivates fatty acids the I doubt it.toMy wife’sdietary pulmonary specialist visibly The western The way effect to doofthat to imbalance draw up an Advance body fattyis acid manifests whenrequires. he sees the standard and detail of X-rays she brings Directive, a legal and And binding document thatIlow outlines your as irregular heartbeat, joint18degeneration, energy, back from Singapore. months ago, don’t know wishes if you become incapacitated due to illness or injury. hyper-coagulation, dry skin host ofheart other monitor, conditions. about now, there was onlyand onea holter a It sets forth theused specific life- supporting prolonging wearable device to measure heart beatorover a 24hour period, available entire-or island. measures you would on likethe applied not- like resuscitation DNA Mutation or CPR, or whether to end all life-saving measures. Your For the should uninsured and those withthe limited resources wishes be written and document given to Numerous synthetic anddown natural compounds mutate you can find good treatment from an experienced doctor cellular DNAmost andlikely cause totime form. cells the people to cancer be closecells at the of Aging your demise. here who will, if he’s doing he’s job properly, tell you if he lose DNA and the result is Youtheir should notgene leaverepair thesemechanisms agonizing decisions to others. can treat you successfully here or if you should go DNA genetic damage causes cells totype proliferate out wish of These instructions should include the of care you elsewhere for diagnosis and treatment. In which case, control, into cancer cells. to have,i.e., the medical team and the youwhere want toyou end hospitals in turn Bangkok, Penang andhospital India are up in.to Iflook. you wish to be an organ donoronly, here the in Indonesia need For diagnostic purposes Raffles Immune Centre inDysfunction Singapore hard to beat. Unless you are you can register withisKomite Transplantasi National (the covered are very wealthy, do not admitted NationalorTransplant Committee) orget theyourself Eye Bank (Bank For a variety of the agingOnce immune system loses inMata Singapore, if itreasons, can be avoided. you are, the in costs Indonesia) ahead of time and stipulate that your its ability to attack bacteria, viruses and cancer cells. In are eye-watering. directive.
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For all of us, insured or not, disease prevention is by far the best option. That means a healthy life style in terms of exercise and diet. Therapeutically, clinical nutrition is the Yourscandal instructions shouldofalso indicate your in wishes great and shame modern medicine, that it for is aging humans, levelswell of will dangerous cytokines preferred rites, burial, cremation or you repatriation relegated tolast theexcessive closet. Eating keep healthy are produced that cause immune systemand to turn on its preferences, appoint athe funeral service a chronic trusted and properly applied can cure or alleviate many host and create auto-immune diseases,, such as allergies, relative or Real friendfood whoisagrees to take of but all that. Also conditions. by far the best care option effective lupus, heart supplementation under can work don’t anemia, forget to rheumatoid leave behindexpert a listdisease ofdirection familyand andarthritis. friends you wonders. want notified. ‘Next of kin’ may not be near if you have Non-Digestive Enzyme Imbalance family in another country. Indonesian Immigration and However there are snags. First you need to know that your consulate also need to be informed. Internal cellular on multiple enzymatic what your takingfunctions is 1) anydepend good, and 2) if your taking it in the right amountwith to do you any good. Andcauses lastly reactions occurring precise timing. Aging now for the bigand caveat: Remember that every country 3)And supplementation most of the alternative treatments enzyme disturbances in the brain and liver, which result in has itsneurological ownbynorms and regulations prescribed a qualified integrative MDit comes may be severe diseases such aswhen Parkinson’s orto durable health careloss. and Impaired appointing a health care proxy. cost-effective but they are not liver cheap and often not persistent memory function results inIf you plan to die in Indonesia you are well advised to inform covered by insurance. toxic damage to every cell in the body. yourself of the practices here. In fact, a quick survey The biggest snag is that it is next to impossible the to among a Enzyme few Balihere lawyers reveals that unfortunately, Digestive Deficit purchase anylaw of the formulations can helpayou in Bali. Indonesian system does notthat recognise Living Will. As in most countries, in the past Indonesia allowed you to The aging pancreas digestive However, you canoften drawfails uptoasecrete privateenough statement letter import nutrititional supplements by post providing they enzymes, aging directives liver does and not secrete regardingwhile yourthe medical wishes enough on how were for personal consumption and in a reasonable bile acids. personnel The resultsshould are thetreat chronic problems medical you digestive in case of a lethal quantity, not for re-sale. A reasonable supply was many face as they age. condition. This statement letter only indicates your wishes considered to be three months worth. The import tax was and does not have the strong enforcement capacity like a minimal. Excitotoxicity will. It behoves you to discuss these matters with your Regretably there was ministerial land grab recently on private physician nowaand see where you stand. The department aging brainat loses control of of the its behalf of customs the expense release ofnow neurotransmitters such as national postal service and no nutritional supplements In the end it doesn’t really matter - or does it to you? glutamate and dopamine, this back results are allowed to enter the country and must and be sent to in devastating brain cell and place of origin. You can’t even ‘ransom’ themdamage at any price. Statistics claim that nearly of people age 55 and older They are in factdestruction. treated ashalf if they’re pharmaceuticals , don’t have a will. I bet the percentage is even individual higher for which means they cannot be imported until each not having Will. Yet itbeen is important ingredient in aa Living formulation has approvedtobydocument BPOM, Circulatory Deficit your end-of-lifebody. preferences communicate those to the regulatory This is and a lengthy and expensive process and and/or not Microcapillary an option for individuals. It isto a misapplied your family the people that likely near you floware of blood tobe the brain, restrictive practice that in theory is intended to protect us at that crucial time. Putting a plan in place for things eye and skin is impaired as a part like of from the import of unregulated pharmaceuticals. medical care and funeral arrangements that normal aging. The result helps is thatensure disorders upon your death, youreye wishes out macular and that of the (suchareascarried cataract, Until a less corporate or a more user-friendly regime degeneration, No.1In family squabbles are avoidedglaucoma) over your are deadthe body. prevails, the only practical option is to bring in the age-related degenerative disease. Major terms of funeral arrangements, you can leave the supplements you need yourself, or to set up an informal and mini-strokes are common problems arrangements to a competent service like Antara Bangsa ring among friends and acquaintances so you can assist circulatory deficit to very the Funeral in Bali concurtrips. they are each otherServices. whenassociated you Expats return with from overseas brain. good and take care of the details. As Ines Wynn says when introducing the column, she Oxidative Stressbe a lively interaction and exchange of hopes Don’t there wait tocan put your affairs in order. Now, while you are useful information developing in and still hale and healthy and still have around control Boomer of your Free radicals are unstable molecules that have been Corner. belongings and the execution of your last wishes, is the implicated in most diseases associated with aging. best time to put some order in your end of life preferences. In a world that is already heavily popular influencedsupplements by manipulative Antioxidants have become to Don’t wait until life’swe inevitable throw youtoa perceive, curve and algorithms, in ways are only loops now beginning protect against free-radical-induced cell damage, but few beat you to it. thesharing an open-hearted BA readers as to their people take proper among combination of antioxidant knowledge experience of Bali is a one good way of supplementsand needed to do any good. fighting back. A lively exchange of information and views alongside this column and hopefully online would not only be an organic and valuable resource but a refreshing change. By Ines Wynn By Shari Shari ByBy Adrian The Boomer Corner is a column dedicated to people over The Boomer Corner is a dedicated to over over The Boomer Corner is column dedicated to people people over The Boomer Corner aa column column to people over 60 living in Bali. 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