all i know is that its better to have problems than to be dead.Everyone should go to India and do ommm ommm's under the Bodhi tree and come back preaching blessed aliveness.
And to be thankful for universal health insurance where you have lifetime free prescription drugs, the 'best' doctors from the likes of John Hopkins, and free vaccines, and free surgical operations for transplants, new knees and hips, kidneys, livers, hearts, eyes, and brains. And it's important, to always, always be thankful, even as you die with all manners of tubing in a state-of-the-art ICU replete with all the comforts of dying-with a nun praying over you everyday as it's not only "quality" in life, but in dying, and when you become compost, you have the bliss you're used to on earth. With the wish you get reincarnated to the same blissful life you had before.
Does that sound like something you would tell people to be thankful for?
As Pat Timpone would say "May the blessings be!"