Longevity @ MindSay 
Well here I go again. With my son Will I'm starting another home based business adventure.
I like the coffee and he loves the hot chocolate, so what the heck, we are in the Healthy Coffee business.
Actually, it's just now getting cool enough for the coffee. I've been drinking the tea all summer and I feel great. William will drink hot coffee in the dead of summer. He says the "hot" cools him down. Maybe he knows something, because I'm finding that a in a lot of countries they do just that: give a hot drink to help cool you off. Go figure.
Anyway, the idea of saving 100,000 lives per day through such rejuvenating technologies raises a whole new set of problems. Mankind is already seriously depleting the earth’s resources as it is, can you imagine 100,000 more lives per day being added into the pot?! And wouldn’t that be limiting the evolution of man’s whole development to the lower plane of mortality?
Very likely, were I to have the choice between normal aging and extended longevity complimented with the health of my youth, I’d likely jump all over it, but would that really be a ‘good’ thing? Immortality is one thing, but that wouldn’t really BE immortality, that would be simply EXTENDED mortality. And I just can’t see man’s present mortal existence as being the highest thing to be reached for. Or, on the other hand, would extending mortality eventually LEAD to true immortality and the ultimate union of mortality and IMmortality? Yet, all that said, I confess I’d be amongst the first to reach for it, if I deemed it to be within my grasp…regardless of WHAT it might lead to. I’m sort of rambling here aren’t I?
Good LORD, such heavy thoughts of mortality and immortality, life and death, the longevity of the earth. You know, if we’re going to go this route, there should be research of equal intensity in the area of increasing the longevity of the EARTH we live on…or in finding another suitable planet for us immortal baby boomers to move to once we’ve drained the earth of ITS sustenance.
Read about de Grey’s research and other related topics here. Do YOU want to live forever? As for me at this insanely early hour in the morning for a day off, just a bit more coffee and I’ll be able to solve this complex dilemna…
Anyway, the idea of saving 100,000 lives per day through such rejuvenating technologies raises a whole new set of problems. Mankind is already seriously depleting the earth’s resources as it is, can you imagine 100,000 more lives per day being added into the pot?! And wouldn’t that be limiting the evolution of man’s whole development to the lower plane of mortality?
Very likely, were I to have the choice between normal aging and extended longevity complimented with the health of my youth, I’d likely jump all over it, but would that really be a ‘good’ thing? Immortality is one thing, but that wouldn’t really BE immortality, that would be simply EXTENDED mortality. And I just can’t see man’s present mortal existence as being the highest thing to be reached for. Or, on the other hand, would extending mortality eventually LEAD to true immortality and the ultimate union of mortality and IMmortality? Yet, all that said, I confess I’d be amongst the first to reach for it, if I deemed it to be within my grasp…regardless of WHAT it might lead to. I’m sort of rambling here aren’t I?
Good LORD, such heavy thoughts of mortality and immortality, life and death, the longevity of the earth. You know, if we’re going to go this route, there should be research of equal intensity in the area of increasing the longevity of the EARTH we live on…or in finding another suitable planet for us immortal baby boomers to move to once we’ve drained the earth of ITS sustenance.
Read about de Grey’s research and other related topics here. Do YOU want to live forever? As for me at this insanely early hour in the morning for a day off, just a bit more coffee and I’ll be able to solve this complex dilemna…
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Friends Help You Live Longer
The study, by Lynne Giles of Flinders University in Adelaide and team, appears in the most recent issue of the British Medical Association's Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
"By differentiating between friends, children and other relatives, we were able to show that it is friends, rather than children or relatives, which confer most benefit to survival in later life," the researchers said.
Giles and team drew on data from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging, which began in 1992 in Adelaide.
The study aimed to assess how economic, social, behavioral and environmental factors affected the health and wellbeing of people aged 70 and upwards.
Nearly 1,500 Australians were asked how much personal and phone contact they had with their various social networks, including children, relatives, friends and confidants.
The study monitored the survival of study participants over 10 years. The group was monitored annually for the first four years of the study and then at approximately three yearly intervals.
Giles and team found that 10 years on, those with the strongest group of friends and confidants were found to have lived longer than those with the fewest friends.
Close contact with children and relatives had little impact on survival rates over the 10 years.
A network of good friends was, in statistical terms, equivalent to a 22 percent reduction in the risk of dying during this period when compared to those who had close ties with their children or other relatives.