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12 August 2019, 02:58 AM | #1 |
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Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates.
It seems we may have been a bit hasty in thinking diet and lifestyle may have been the reason behind people living beyond 100 in certain regions of the world. Although it can be a factor, but having no proof of birth and pension fraud may have also been another factor.
Personally I'm in the "live healthy, drop dead" camp, not in the "hanging at the nursing home until I'm 110 camp." https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...pIV3oifQ%3D%3D |
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Very interesting, indeed.
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Interesting indeed.
I don’t think a lot of people consider that there are all sorts of the places where record of birth is still not the norm. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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Interesting, and not surprising I guess. This claim was levelled at the supposedly oldest woman in France a while ago. Agree with the live healthily and then drop dead comment. I certainly have no wish to prolong a pointless life with chronic ailments, just ‘existing’ in a nursing home.
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Unfortunately we don't get a choice.
Everyone would choose the "live well and then just drop dead" option if it was that simple. In reality, most of us will gradually deteriorate with various dysfunctions that gradually become more serious until we are debilitated. This is why there is a strong case for voluntary euthanasia when all quality of life is gone.
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12 August 2019, 07:04 PM | #6 |
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The article isn’t peer reviewed and does lean heavily on cross referencing statistical analysis of location-based 100+ y.o.’s and poor birth records and/or fraud.
But if we set that aside and accept he has found a chink in the claims of extraordinary age - he failed to correlate absence of certain disease types in the very same population centers. In other words, it’s not how many years we live, it’s how well we live the years we have. The same populations that have a membership spike in the 100+ club seem to have less dementia, coronary failure, obesity, Type2 diabetes and other lifestyle ailments. You can’t fault record-keeping or fraud in that data. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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