It is claimed that infectious diseases throughout the world are being reduced. However a World Health Organization report confirms that chronic diseases are on the increase in western countries, with heart disease and cancer to the forefront. These are closely followed by injury, sometimes fatality, in increasing numbers of cases of iatrogenic origin.

Statistics, although varying to some extent, all confirm this to be the case in the U.S. and in Australia. In Australia however, although we share equal concern for both heart disease and cancer as major health problems, there are growing concerns for the increasing prevalence of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other mental illness, drug induced deaths, diabetes, asthma and kidney disease. All these diseases are on the increase and guarantee future suffering and pain for many people if present trends continue.

The general consensus is that the majority of us will die from a disease of the body or the mind. There is little talk of any likelihood that our future will be to die naturally, without illness but for the simple reason we are just tired of living, or as our spiritual teachings tell us, when our prescribed time on earth is completed.

Because most of us love life and are interested in having as long a lifetime as possible, we make effort to maintain health and look after our bodies. The other side of our motive of course, is that, whether we are happy or not, we wish to avoid the painful diseases that plague those who are not able to undertake this responsibility.

So if we wish to escape being another ‘statistic’ dying with painful physical disease or reduced mental faculties or maybe both, we have to work hard and trust that the Big Calculator in the Sky will allow us to experience many pain-free, healthy, happy years.

So much is up to us. We have to maintain our physical and mental fitness programmes, keep our faculties employed constructively and our soul directed and expanded positively to embrace life. It is a positive and attractive plan.

But if we choose otherwise, we will be bound to suffer a disease that will cut short our life prematurely when we would rather choose a more dignified, peaceful exit.

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