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a truly revolutionary--and revolting--development, this generation is bigger and healthier than any generation that's ever lived.

It's going to break the bank of the health care system and give bioethicists an opportunity to lower the bar even lower to declare certain segments of the population euthanasiable, since the article notes there will likely be less dementia and Alzheimer's in old age.

Seriously, though (although I was more than somewhat serious in the above paragraph), people even fifty years ago seemed much older and aged more than they do now. I look at vintage television shows, movies, or old magazines and newspapers, and people WERE "old" even at age forty, fifty, and sixty.

This is a very interesting article.