How Long Do You Want To Live

At what age did you ask yourself the question, "How long do I want to live?"

When I was having a recent conversation with my sister she made the statement, "I sure don't want to live to be that old!"

Reason being she doesn't want to rely on anyone having to take care of her.

I'm for the most part in agreement with that.  I want my independence for as long as I can hold on to it.  That will make me happy.

A new study says being happy apparently has no effect on how long you might live.

Previous studies have linked happiness to longevity but researchers now say there's no such scientific connection.

So while being sick makes you unhappy, just being grouchy isn't enough to make you ill or shorten your life.

The results are based on questionnaires from more than 715,000 British women 50 to 69 years old, who were enrolled in a national breast cancer screening program in the late 1990's.

Source: AP