Oprah's show is repeated after Craig Ferguson late at night, and last night there were these people chirping "I only eat 1900 calories a day, and I feel terrific! I only eat apple peels and a few nuts and salads! I could live to be 200 years old!" And I thought, "Why bother?"
I have to admit that the selfish part of me (as well as the part that loves apples and nuts) is saying, "Think of all the books I could read if I had a whole extra century to do it in!"
But msbelle is totally right about the slow-motion multilayered nightmare that already is our world, even without masses of 150+ year olds to contend with.