news.nationalgeographic.com — If you want to live to a hundred, you'd better lighten up.Children of centenarians—who usually inherit both longevity and personality traits from their parents—are on average more outgoing, agreeable, and less neurotic, according to a new study.
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awflApr 13, 2009
That works if you already have nothing - hospitals and docs are not dumb.Actually, when you say you cannot afford it and the number is high enough, they do discovery. If you have a house with equity - you are told to sell it. And, if you have any savings over, say $2000, you must use it.
jcdickersonApr 14, 2009
Crap - I inherited the worry gene from my mom. My wife is the most relaxed person I know. I'm a dead man walking.
ilfirimainApr 14, 2009
I worry like crazy all the time over class and my grades and things like that. Guess I'm screwed =(
paulishApr 14, 2009
I AM CALM!
awflApr 14, 2009
curtisag, please look here. In my state, bankruptcy only protects up to $3500 in real estate - everything else is fair game.<a class="user" href="http://www.bcsalliance.com/y_debt_medical.html">http://www.bcsalliance.com/y_debt_medical.html</a>
stevethegreatApr 14, 2009
I've gotta say, though, that that's a stupid argument. Everybody wants to live, if not you would had committed suicide already, the real argument is not how much you may live but what quality of life you would like to have. One hundred inconsequential and boring years -indeed- are way too much, but there are others in their 90s who still feel that they have more to give to (and get from) the world. There are times like this that I would like people to be -at least- familiar with the work of Epicurus; "1 year of fulfillment is better than 100 years of (mental or physical) slavery but 100 years of fulfillment are better than one year of fulfillment". Answering to the question whether you would like to live to your 100s or not is useless as the question in itself is too general to make sense...