“Among all my autopsies (and I have performed well over a thousand), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think anyone has died of old age yet. To permit this would be the ideal accomplishment of medical research. To die of old age would mean that all the organs of the body had worn out proportionately, merely by having been used too long. This is never the case. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body…The lesson seems to be that, as far as man can regulate his life by voluntary actions, he should seek to equalize stress throughout his being…The human body – like the tires on a car, or a rug on a floor – wears longest when it wears evenly.” – Hans Selye, The Stress of Life (quoted in Adrenalin and Stress)
No One Dies of Old Age
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