Who’d call dat livin’?
Ian Glynn: Ageing, 3 January 2002
The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Ageing
by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes.
Norton, 254 pp., £19.95, August 2001,0 393 04836 5 Show More
by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes.
Norton, 254 pp., £19.95, August 2001,
“... included a protracted adolescence, or how he fared towards the end of his life. Ira Gershwin’s splendidly execrable rhyme: ‘Who’d call dat livin’/When no gall’l give in/To no man what’s nine hundred years?’, suggests only one of many unenviable scenarios. Longevity is desirable only if the prolonged life is ... ”
