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Chopra's Claim Of 150+ Yr Olds

Don Ashley dashley at TENET.EDU
Thu Feb 15 21:31:51 EST 1996


Bill

Thanks for the clarification.  Maybe that's why Deepak backed away from 
promoting anti-aging, or so I've been told.

My contention is that conceiving even the remote possibility of stopping the 
aging process within our lifetime can lead to positive changes in one's 
 lifestyle.  

For example, what if the odds were 50% that we would live to experience 
the arresting of the aging process?  What about 5%?  or 1/10 of 1 percent?

If we can hang around long enough to get it stopped (aging), it would give
us another 100 years to be around for incomprehensible advances in
science, medicine, sociology, and technology.  Just look at the last 100
years of advancements. 

To just automatically write ourselves off when we approach 80 puts a 
damper on innovative thought and frequently inhibits safety and healthy 
habits in favor of the more destructive instant gratification of high 
risk, over-consumptive lifestyles.

Possibly, just possibly, we might get to stay around a lot longer than 
those gone by.  That, too, can be sad when we think that they might have 
been able to share it with us.  Another reason to not let ourselves think 
favorably about major anti-aging progress in the upcoming decade.


Don Ashley, Houston
 
On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 WalkerBill at aol.com wrote:

>   Residents of the Causacaus (sp?) in Russia took the names of their fathers
> to avoid the draft. This was exposed back in the 1970s, as I'm sure Chopra
> knows. (It caused the yogurt craze when the "150-yr.-olds" made it into the
> press). --BIll 
> 




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