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1 posted on 03/16/2006 7:51:42 AM PST by djf
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Now we will be retired longer than our careers? How will anyone save enough to live 'til they're 150yo?


2 posted on 03/16/2006 7:53:28 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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I hear that 90 is the new 40.


3 posted on 03/16/2006 7:53:30 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
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Social Security is in BIG trouble........


4 posted on 03/16/2006 7:54:23 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
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Ask Japan how well this is working out. They now have invented a robot to take care of the unwanted elderly. No, thanks. I'd be happy to leave for heaven after my hree-score-years-and-ten. Surely beats a robot's care in a nursing home.


7 posted on 03/16/2006 7:57:38 AM PST by kittymyrib
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This is not a "new era" for advanced age. Most from Adam to Noah lived well into their 900s.

Nobody ever lived to see 1,000. (Unless you could Enoch and Elijah, who never died.)


8 posted on 03/16/2006 8:01:33 AM PST by Michael Goldsberry (Lt. Bruce C. Fryar USN 01-02-70 Laos)
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how many people in the OT in the bible are reported to have lived well into their hundreds, and people use that to discredit the bible?
now they're saying that living to those older ages is quite possible by limiting your diet.


10 posted on 03/16/2006 8:04:00 AM PST by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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I don't know about the rest but as I am 67, I get meaner every year.
If I live to be 90 or above, I would have to turn into a hermit.
11 posted on 03/16/2006 8:04:06 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO")
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Does this mean 60 years of p------ in their pants?


12 posted on 03/16/2006 8:04:32 AM PST by GeorgefromGeorgia
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Modern medicine is redefining old age

This is true, but not in the way that you think... WE ARE NOT LIVING ANY LONGER THAN WE DID IN 1900!! Look at the data; the average life expectancy has increased from around fifty to around seventy-six, for a new born. For someone who is sixty, the average life expectancy is about the same. This is due to two main factors: (1) Most important... Infant mortality has gone down (2) Mothers dying in childbirth has gone down... there is also a small increase in folks surviving through pandemics because of anti-biotics. Looking at different scientific analysis of the data, if a sixty year old today lives any longer than one did at the turn of the LAST century is by NO MORE than a few years. Google myths, longevity infant mortality for more info...

20 posted on 03/16/2006 8:17:39 AM PST by LambSlave (The truth will set you free)
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26 posted on 03/16/2006 8:30:37 AM PST by martin_fierro (_____oooo_( ° ¿ ° )_oooo_____)
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Rest assured that the proponents of euthanasia will do everything they can to convince more people that life in old age is not worth living, and that one will be such a drain on society if one lives this long.


31 posted on 03/16/2006 8:46:13 AM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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1,000 years old and still nothing on TV.


35 posted on 03/16/2006 9:27:17 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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You'd either have to save like a som a buck in your early years or else work till you are 130.

No thankx


44 posted on 03/16/2006 10:06:20 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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My mom is 84 years old, just a few gray hairs, reads without glasses, very healthy, though getting bored with life. She still cleans her own house and cooks her own meals. She takes no prescription medication but is religious about her vitamin pills. My dad was the opposite of this and died at 68 years old after heart surgery.


48 posted on 03/16/2006 10:16:34 AM PST by MontanaBeth (Never under estimate the enemy.)
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