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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:01 PM
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Life is Short. Really.
Edited on Wed Jul-22-09 09:05 PM by Ripley
It's a marvel that some people are living into their one-hundred-teens. But they're pretty much anomalies.

Most people make it into their seventh decade. In America most middle-aged people (wait, young ones, too) are prescribed and are on a nasty soup of pharmaceuticals. Life spans = not so good. Health care should not be based upon synthetic drugs profits.



The oldest living person was a woman named Jeanne Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997), who lived 122 years 164 days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:04 PM
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1. when a human life is put in the perspective of the life of the earth
the 4.5 billion years or even the 6,000 the whacks claim, 70 years ain't much, is it?
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:05 PM
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2. kudos to Jeanne Calment.
I find that alot of people in their 50's die of heart attacks and cancer. (I'm in my 50's). I know quite a few people who have died ahead of me. I always thought I'd go first. Watch me live to be 100.
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:18 PM
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6. I'm Watching You!
And hope you live to see 100 candles on your cake of choice!

;)
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-23-09 04:51 AM
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18. Awwww.....thanks! That was nice. nt
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:06 PM
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3. its not the years in your life that count...
its the life in your years.
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Mimosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:06 PM
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4. Some of the Rxs are poison
Some Rxs are poison, some aren't.
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:25 PM
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8. Well, Hell. Aint that the prob?
When you become very sick, what options are there?

Just watching TV as most folks do would seem to give you the answer of "ask your doctor" who would give you a drug.

How do you know which ones are poison and which ones aren't?
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:08 PM
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5. So many are dying too soon, we should all be
living longer and better.
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:33 PM
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9. No shit!
Longer and better lives, where?

Why is that? Well, the drug companies want us baby boomers sick and feeling bad and going to our doctors who will write a prescription for this and that and DAMN!
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:21 PM
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7. Quit smoking
That will certainly make it seem like it's going slower, at least the first few months.:dilemma:
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:34 PM
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10. I always liked to believe that Charlie Smith was as old as he claimed
And by his accounts, he was 137 when he died. Ok, he embellished his life a lot, but he sure looked older than dirt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Smith_(centenarian)

Voices from the Days of Slavery
Charlie Smith, Age Uncertain

"The highest bidder gets you. He'll carry his plantation. Put another one up there. Me highest bid, which ever one bid, gives the most, he'll carry him to his plant, that the white, in the South. And they went to mistreating the, the colored. Getting children by the colored women. And all such as that, getting colored. And the white find it out, how they was treating them. They hurt them. And they come down here, the first war ever was in the United State was the North and South fought a war to free the colored."


Charlie Smith, 1976. Photograph by Peggy Kehoe, courtesy of The Polk County Democrat, Bartow, Florida.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/vfssp.html
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:51 PM
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13. Oldest person feud eh?
Your link gave me base ball players...not that old.
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 10:34 PM
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17. The link was supposed to go here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Smith_(centenarian)

It talks a little about Charlie Smith's life and the debate about how old he actually was. However old he was when he died, he was a character and the news guys always loved covering him.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:36 PM
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11. Ars longa, vita brevis
-Hippocrates
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:48 PM
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12. Let's have a poll on whether or not human life should be short?
Or should it be on whether human life is short?

Gee, I don't know which question we should ask. Maybe we should have a poll on that.

;-)
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:56 PM
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14. Problem is that even if you grow quite old, your young years are the same length, just get more old
yrs.
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 10:08 PM
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15. When you have responsibilities you stick around to take
care of them.
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 10:26 PM
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16. Taking care of "them"
Edited on Wed Jul-22-09 11:01 PM by Ripley
Takes a lot of effort.
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