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We are all 'programmed' to die,

Well modern medecine and several good stents added another 15 years to my life because without them I would have been for sure because I was 95% blocked on the widow maker artery, so I again call B$. Good genes certainly help but my family all dies before they collected social security.

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Well modern medecine and several good stents added another 15 years to my life because without them I would have been for sure because I was 95% blocked on the widow maker artery, so I again call B$.

I call BS to your BS.

Modern medicine may have prolonged your life, but, modern medicine has not added to your programmed DNA. Getting around your predefined age limit is only temporary, but you will still die at 'around' your scheduled time-limit. Stents and medicine and new discoveries and procedures are all good for not dying as per your DNA program, but,neither your nor I nor anybody that has ever lived, has ever beaten the DNA programmed into living creatures.

Heck, I'm pretty sure that I and a lot of people in my life and friends too, have benefited by modern medicine's help that helps us go a bit over the DNA programmed life-span, but, the DNA programs are still there. Living past the expected life-span does not mean that the programs are not there to try to end us, one life at a time.

Like I said, only a tiny percentage of people get to live past 100, and most die before 90. That's not BS! Look it up.

[Stentor]

...I was 95% blocked on the widow maker artery...

90% for me. Had an EMT tell me that we walkers are rare birds.