BBC: Will I live longer than my cat?

[Sergeant Pluck]

Interesting look at life expectancy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19467491

But as the UK has got safer and healthier, the force-of-mortality has been decreasing for decades, so that life expectancy has been rising at about three months a year - it's odd to think we have been essentially ageing only nine months for each year that passes.

That makes my head hurt.

[Bledlow]

A perfect role model. So when I, too, am old, deaf and a bit daft, I shall follow his example by sitting outside the house, alternating between shouting at passers-by and pretending to be dead.

Sounds good to me. What's the point of getting old & decrepit if you can't enjoy it?