Modern medicine is redefining old age

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060315/hl_nm/old_age_dc

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Modern medicine is redefining old age and may soon allow people to live regularly beyond the current upper limit of 120 years, experts

boy the antis are going to have a hayday with this one.. I don't want my life prolonged

It's a bit ironic that the "upper limit" is defined by Jeanne Calment, longevity record holder, who died at 122 after more than a century of smoking. If smoking is so dangerous the oldest verified person should never, never be a smoker.

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ironic

I have to chuckle Andy, wonder how the antis are going to explain the fact she was a smoker and living to the ripe old age of 122.. it kind of blows all anti's doom and gloom stats right out of the water..

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Originally posted by Jemeyes:
I have to chuckle Andy, wonder how the antis are going to explain the fact she was a smoker and living to the ripe old age of 122.. it kind of blows all anti's doom and gloom stats right out of the water..

Nah, they just have to dig up one of those rare 35 year old lung cancer death to counter it.

Besides, after reading that article they'll now be saying smokers are knocking 935 years off their lives:

"Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist from Cambridge University, goes much further. He believes the first person to live to 1,000 has already been born..."

Basically it is a sales pitch for funding.

The medical profession can't wait to service the needs of aging boomers. Wellpoint (BlueCross/Blue Shield), located here in Indianapolis announced a fifty million investment in two hospitol spa convention centers. Daily room rates to be about $ 3,500 a day to include a complete workup and advice about food, drink, and excercise. CAT scans and MRIs are available at will. The announcement said the services would not be covered by insurance. They expect to attract cosmedic patients and convention traffic among the wealthy.

These facilities are springing up all over, one just opened amongst our wealthy suburbs.

There are a lot of boomers and a lot of them will have money to spend to try to return to the bodies they didn't have in their youth, but always wanted.

Who decided what a normal life span was anyway? I mean 2000 years ago I would be more than half dead by now. Now I've got another fifty years that I can spend with my family and friends. I can't think of one bad thing that longevity would bring to this world.

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Originally posted by TravelMug79:
Who decided what a normal life span was anyway? I mean 2000 years ago I would be more than half dead by now. Now I've got another fifty years that I can spend with my family and friends. I can't think of one bad thing that longevity would bring to this world.

2000 years? How about just the last century? In 1900 the average life expectancy was 47. Then every body started smoking everywhere and then... uh....... oh..... While it just HAS to be that ol' SHS that's keeping everybody from living to 150. Uh yeah that's it. And nobody will ever die in an auto accident once we get those damn smokers off the road.

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Originally posted by ImMadAsHell:
In 1900 the average life expectancy was 47. Then every body started smoking everywhere and then... uh....... oh..... While it just HAS to be that ol' SHS that's keeping everybody from living to 150.

Forgot one subtle point, IMAH.

The stuff people smoked in 1900 was free of the junk that most folks smoke today. Thus the concern for SHS today.

capeesh?

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Originally posted by Jason K:

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Originally posted by ImMadAsHell:
In 1900 the average life expectancy was 47. Then every body started smoking everywhere and then... uh....... oh..... While it just HAS to be that ol' SHS that's keeping everybody from living to 150.

Forgot one subtle point, IMAH.

The stuff people smoked in 1900 was free of the junk that most folks smoke today. Thus the concern for SHS today.

capeesh?

Yeah, the junk spread by members of The tobacco taliban such as your self. The more you open your mouth, the more you expose your brain.

Ok, your post made no sense.

Are you claiming that cigarettes are just as healthy today as they were in 1900? Perhaps you have a source, link, or study confirming that opinion?

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Originally posted by Jason K:
Ok, your post made no sense.

Are you claiming that cigarettes are just as healthy today as they were in 1900? Perhaps you have a source, link, or study confirming that opinion?

Tobacco grown today is no different than that grown in 1900......it's the processes that are different. Just the same as any herb, flower or vegetable. If you grow it the same way as done in 1900, it is the same.

I don't use chemical insecticides, herbicides or fertilizers in my gardening.......just like in 1900.

I must apoligize, for out of sheer convenience I have been showering for the past 20 years under floridated water and my gray matter has been partially euthanized. Was JiKoNazi advocating the use of pure, unaduterated tobacco? At this point I must confess that I would be more than willing to switch to some good old time 1900 circa golden leaf (in a pipe, of course, to avoid any second hand paper smoke) if I was allowed to smoke it somewhere out of the confines of my own home(preferably a well stocked and ventilated bar like the one down the road I used to frequent till the fascist nannies drove it out of business). I thought about bathing in the pond out by the park but I'm convinced it is a toxic stew of fertilzer runoff from the grassy knoll that the government sponsored parks department maintains next to the plastic, child-proof, playground accoutrements. Maybe I should just give up bathing entirely. Being a smoker, we all know I couldn't possiby smell any worse!