How To Live Long and Prosper

jack mmAccept death instead of fearing it
Many of the subjects featured in How to Live Forever had their own “secret” to finding comfort with their mortality. Before his death at age 96, workout guru Jack LaLanne continued to exercise regularly and pound carrot juice. Former Three’s Company star Suzanne Somers has found solace in hormone therapy — taking roughly 60 pills a day — to combat what she once referred to as “the Seven Dwarfs of Menopause: Itchy, Bitchy, Sleepy, Sweaty, Bloated, Forgetful, and All Dried Up.” (We know, gross.) And the weirdos people at ALCOR Life Extension Foundation think it’s completely sane to recommend freezing dead bodies until someone invents the corpse-reanimation technology.

“The film started as more of a scientific look at longevity … but I eventually came to the conclusion that it’s not all about the length of one’s life, but how it’s lived,” Wexler says.

And that means accepting death as a part of existence, and finding meaning in our lives during the time we do have.