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We've all heard the anecdote about the person who retired and died a year or two years later. That anecdote kind of irritates me. I'm not irritated with the people who tell it because they're just telling their story. I'm irritated by how it gets interpreted. Correlation doesn't equal causations. Yes, you can correlate the time of death with the date of retirement, but one didn't necessarily cause the other. Most of the time, that person was probably going to pass when they passed, and they just retired when they did. For my part, if I died tomorrow, I wouldn't be sitting around salty about how I only quote-unquote got two years of retirement. I would look at it like I got two amazing years, two more years than 98% of the world ever get. Every year of retirement I get is a gift, and I'm going to appreciate it.