What a waste of the last 25 or 30 pages of this topic. The original post was wondering about the yeas and nays of getting a vasectomy not a bunch of lectures about math and philosophy, ..... and a lot of good stories and experiences were posted. Then along comes a 70 year old elderly person with his egghead theories, probability studies and 'expectational analyses' (whatever that is), insulting everyone along the way because they didn't do a bunch of worthless mathematical computations to figure out whether it was the right decision or not.
If it's right for the person or not depends on their personal circumstances, NOT some equation that some other egghead figured out whilst attending some long-forgotten college class back in the 'old days.' I would guess that this 70 year old person was a college professor or some kind of educator (or at least he thought he should have been), in the past and now he thinks he has to inform the 'unwashed masses' of how much more superior his brain is and suffers the ignominy of having to teach the ignorant 'lessers' about the realities of life! Typical of those who have had too much education, rather than those who have had just the right amount.
Give it a rest AJ, no one's interested in doing the math, everyone can figure it out for themselves without textbooks, spreadsheets, and medical journals. For the record, I'm 72, going on 73 and had 3 boys, 2 of which have died in the past 10-15 years - - IF I had decided to get a vasectomy, I certainly wouldn't have any desire to change that back just because I hadn't done the 'proper analysis' way back when.
I'm told that the part they cut out is 2 or 3 centimeters , but it is 12 -15 inches long. If it were me, I'd tell the urologist to take all of it out, not just the 2 or 3 centimeters. Once I started having kids (actually the wife had them ;>)), I wasn't too thrilled with kids running around, bugging me, getting into my tools and losing them, etc., but I wouldn't trade the experience for a billion of your pounds/euros/dollars/whatever.
I'm through with this thread since you have hijacked it with your long-winded lectures and your inability to be able to convert more that 2 people to understanding all your 5 dollar words and philosophies.
I won't say it's been entertaining, becuz it hasn't ever since you started posting, but before that it was entertaining and informative, especially when pandemonium was posting with his knowledge and experience.
Bye ......