From Laura Deming:
As you get older, the chance that you will die goes up.
....MUCH MORE
Her blog is interesting as well, beginning with her comments on Aubrey de Grey, who I always thought of as more a promoter/borderline crank than as a scientist.
For folks who are new to this stuff the SENS Foundation ( "strategies for engineered negligible senescence") located in Mountain View (nice 'hood) recently fired de Grey.
