A growing body of research shows that life gets better as we get older

Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by dschiptsov on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:06PM (#8683792)

Define "life".

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by bostik on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:37PM (#8684002)

A sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by efng on Monday December 01, 2014 @09:40PM (#8685378)

not true. Currently only about 95% of people who have ever lived have died.

We might be the lucky 5%!

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by bostik on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @05:42AM (#8686502)

I doubt that. The remaining population are all in terminal condition.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by goodJobWalrus on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:12PM (#8683832)

I think that definition here is: subjective well being.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by dschiptsov on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @03:57AM (#8686283)

"Subjective" and "well" are redundant.)

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by dschiptsov on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @03:22AM (#8686221)

The point was that such meme-science is good for Cosmopolitan, but not HN.

What they are trying to say, that change in hormonal levels will produce different behavioral patterns? Or that weaker and uglier body will form a new set of habits? That changes in the brain will result in less cognitive load. That watching stupid TV because there is no better alternative is what they call "better life"? Come on.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by JarJarHulaHoop on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:18PM (#8683871)

Depends how you want it defined - in the completely objective sense - a "state of existence".

In a subjective way, it's whatever you make of it.

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