Photo via Flickr user Cyril Caton
When someone becomes very, very old, people want to know how that person went so long without becoming a corpse, because we are all terrified of death and imagine that there is a secret to avoiding it that's not "Exercise and eat right and then just keep getting lucky." That's the price you pay for living past 100—everyone wants to know how you did it, like your continued blood flow is a magic trick.
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