Article: We Live Too Short and Die Too Long.

The book is about aging. Not a sad contemplation of life rushing toward a dismal end, but a call for seeing the various stages of "development" as positive, rather than deterioration with accompanying terrors.

Aging is not a disease, Dr. Bortz insists. Often disease does accompany the process of becoming older, but infirmity is not inevitable.

Back in Julius Caesar's time, human life expentancy was approximately 25 years. In 1900 it had risen to the age of 49. The increase in longevity has been explained, says the author, by factors such as decreased infant mortality, eradication of many communicable diseases, and improvements in both nutrition and ...

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