"Blacks and Asians sometimes like to face their inferiority by having sex with a superior white person" reads like a humungous Freudian slip.
Bad form.
Same for me. My experience was considerably more than $7,000. The recovery was long and trying, but it rendered me some commonsense resistance to impulse spending.
I'm in your age range and understand exactly how you feel. It's only natural that our stimuli responses are not going to have the intensity of our youth. As for "testosterone shots, or counseling", I say vodka/bourbon shots and cuddling. 😁
I believe "passed" is considered to be less harsh than "died."
The internet renders several alternatives to "died":
Synonyms of died
perished.
fell.
succumbed.
departed.
expired.
went.
deceased.
disappeared.
Many of these refer to religious beliefs, which are only respectful if the person who died subscribed to them.
They passed (away). ...
They slipped away.
They're at rest.
They lost their life.
They left this life.
They entered eternal rest.
They were called back to God.
They were called home.
I remember reading long time ago (don't remember the sorce) that a cure for baldness was/is on the back burner because baldness has never been designated a disease, which renders a cure unprofitable.
Perhaps our medical fellow COM members would know.