At 82, retired engineer Leonard Thompson is out to show he still has a few good years left.
Years? What’s this bunk about mere years, sonny?
More like decades. Why the heck not?
Thompson, after all, exercises body and mind daily, even developing his own workout program for seniors that emphasizes stretching, deep breathing, light aerobics and modified sit-ups and push-ups. And, six months ago, he recovered from invasive bladder and prostate cancer surgery quicker than some patients half his age.
”He is a fairly remarkable individual,” says Thompson’s urologist, Dr. Ralph deVere White, director of the University of California Davis Cancer Center.
i don’t know how this can be a good thing for mankind. as the boomers age there are not going to be enough younger gen to pay for their quests to live forever. beyond that, the resources that the earth provides for free to us are already being over taxed and this is not going to help. i am sorry they are so afraid of death, not to say that i wouldn’t be, but it is a cycle of life on earth that beings live and die. i watched a show on history int’l about the plague and while it was indeed horrible, when it was over life was considerably better for those who survived it. but again, i understand how one would try to survive as long as possible and not wish to see loved ones fall.
Obviously, this “remarkable person” should be working and paying taxes until he is no longer able to care for himself. That was the previous “deal”. The idea that folks over the age of 65 are “entitled to decades of vacation paid for those younger then they, who will never be able to retire, thanks to the debts the older generation rang up is morally repugnant.
(And I am a Boomer. Age 51). I plan to work for ever.