Originally posted by DonAlberto:
well i would guess they're bad health is because they've lived the good life, eating steaks, greasy pasta, cheeses all kind a italian food, i love italian food, dont get me wrong, but its not the most healthy food. they also live with a pretty decent stress factor in they're life :p so i can understand that they have health problems later in life. many of them drink to much alcohol too, some of them do drugs too, all contributing factors to mess up they're health later on in life.
And still it seems a lot of these oldtimers keep their position inside the family. If you look at the Genoveses with the brothers Gigante, Matty the horse Anniello, Cirillo or Dentico; all these guys had or still have important roles in the family.
So they may be in bad health but they dontseem to retire early.
