Where there’s a will there’s a way: Pros and cons of your last testament

MAKING a will is a socially approved of activity like taking exercise. I’m all for it. For other people. It may be irrational to believe that taking exercise or writing a will would kill you, but what about Jim Fixx, I ask you?

He was the guy who almost invented jogging, died at a young age while doing it and probably had his will all neatly done out well in advance of his demise.

Of course, the minute you say that, the fitness fans all shake their heads tolerantly and suggest that he might have died much sooner if he hadn’t kept himself so fit. Which line of argument is called having your cake and eating it, not that the fitness folk would sully their lips with cake.