How To Live 100 Years

TIME:

A century of life was once a rare thing, but that is changing. Science is slowly unraveling the secrets of the centenarians.

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Comments

[naschkatze]

12:23 PM on 02/13/2010

I read an article about centenarians a few years ago, and the subjects were asked why they thought they had lived to be over 100. Their answer, without exception, was that they looked upon all life as an adventure, even the bad times. God knows, we live in times that try mens' souls so here is the opportunity for many of us to put that theory to the test.

[Social Construct]

11:38 AM on 02/12/2010

Honestly, I think I'd rather not. But thanks for the offer.

[sonoffestus]

07:46 PM on 02/13/2010

Right there with you!

[TakeSake]

08:59 PM on 02/11/2010

In Japan there is a TV segment, perhaps 10 minutes long, called "Hyaku-sai Banzai" which means something like 10,000 years (cheers) for 100 years. It profiles people who have reached 100 years old.

The vast majority of those profiled are living in their house, doing the same daily tasks that they have always done. Most get out of the house to visit, shop, and do things. Perhaps they stay home and play piano, or do gardening.

There isn't any equivalent show here. Perhaps if people saw that kind of thing, then they would see how it can be, and what it takes to get there.

[Ljilja]

04:17 PM on 02/11/2010

My grandparents lived into their late 90's. They lived in Serbia, in a small village, in their own house. They worked around the house at meaningful jobs and were an important part of family and community. I would love to live until I was a 100 if I could live like that. My mother, on the other hand, died of Alzheimer's disease, in a nursing home, in the US, when she was 64. That was excruciating to watch.

http://graciouslivingdaybyday.com/

[naschkatze]

12:30 PM on 02/13/2010

Not many people will like this, but American society on the whole grinds people up and then spits them out when it no longer has any "use" for them. I'm 67 and have recently joined a parish of my church which is called a "family parish". There are only 30+ members as opposed to the larger parish I had belonged which had nearly 300 families (not individuals). There, I was often passed by as if people did not see me. We need to search out smaller environments in which we are recognized as human beings. It doesn't have to be a church--it could be a village as it was for your grandparents or anything.

[sonoffestus]

07:48 PM on 02/13/2010

Very interesting and I believe you are ontosomething. Small is good. Enjoy!