The Gold Update by Mark Mead Baillie — 477th Edition — San Francisco — 05 January 2019 (published each Saturday) —www.deMeadville.com
“We’ll close with respect to this occasionally referred-to quip from an avid reader of The Gold Update: “Gold will make you old”. So shall certain studies that folks actually get paid up with which to come. In a paper on aging published last month in PLOS Biology, ’twas determined that one is closer to dying at the age of 90, than is one at 75. Quite the extraordinary finding, that. On goes the beat indeed. And may Gold’s trend forever be positively correlated with one’s aging!”
Here’s it.
Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus
Seems to be common sense that to be 90 1st be 75. . Began looking at actuary tables for real as a good 15 % of my ’55 Salinas Hi class were gone by 50th reunion age 67-8. Class Data kept by my Features Editor Marlene Puneo Wisdom who collected my humor column. To Wit by Don, each Tue while I was in last period Musicianship scribbling like mad. to make Fri issue 3rd pg above fold “The Flashlight”. Death notices dribble in and a few more leave each email. While nice to feel have we’ve plateaued to more advanced years what Saul babe is actually saying is much can be assigned to err is human during devine art of data reporting. Fact remains we’re down to 39% present accounted for morning toll call.and insurance cos still in the biz. BTW never took journalism but advisor Mr Gallegos was my Soph English teacher and liked my funny styling and remembered when a need arose 2 years on. He later began writing classes at Soledad Prison, grew to be well known book factory, BUT I was 1st discovery. Bit of the wit: by Don