X-Message-Number: 20447 From: "John de Rivaz" <> References: <> Subject: Re: [Cryonics_Institute] Why this group may help both ways! Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:19:35 -0000 This news story suggests why this group could help in two ways -- those cryonicists who are generous with their time in helping other cryonicists members can benefit too! Of course the study may be fatally flawed. If the group who are supposedly generous are mainly composed of the sort of person who is highly productive, a gift of a small amount of time may be at less personal expense than from someone who is time pressured because he is not really very productive. Thus the study is actually selecting people who are highly productive and therefore less time pressured, not people who are generous. People who are not time pressured are less stressed, therefore likely to live longer. Generous oldsters live longer United Press International Older Americans who are generous with their time and help can reduce their risk of dying prematurely by 60 percent, a new study released Wednesday suggests. The study, to be published in a future issue of the journal Psychology Science, found people who reported providing no help to others were more than twice as likely to die sooner than people who gave of themselves. Psychologist Stephanie Brown, the study's author, said previous studies have credited receiving support from another individual with prolonging life. The new research contradicts that finding, Brown said. It is the giving, not the receiving, that increases longevity. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, Holistics, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20447