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"Public Health" hasn't a damn thing to do with it. More like the luck of genetics, access to better nutrition and eradication of smallpox, plague, etc. No one is going to live "forever", no matter what. I would rather stay in my own home all my life, rather than "longer" in some carpeted warehouse, and go on to the next life the Lord has planned for me while I still have a mind to think with, and a body that can still get around. I think a well lived life beats a longer miserable one. I don't really see gearing up for this mad rush to prolong life, if there are many others with this view out there-and I currently only have one friend who rushes for every advertised drug believing it will prolong his life, and improve it. If he were to loose about 110 pounds and eat some fresh cooked food instead of frozen and "instant-just add water" stuff , I think it might do more good, along with an attitude adjustment...but then, he is a liberal, after all.