LIFE SPAN

(See also Life Everlasting; Longevity; Old Age)

(Note centered heading below: Quotations)

‘add a cubit to life span’ (Mt 6:27): w16.07 10; w10 4/15 14-15; w05 11/1 22; w90 10/1 19

chart of various living things: g 5/06 2-3

correctness of Psalm 90:10: it-2 252; w01 11/15 13; g95 10/22 3-4; w93 11/15 3; g88 10/8 23-24

decline from Adam to Jacob: w09 8/15 3

decline from Adam to Moses: g 5/06 8; w03 5/15 5

discussion: it-2 252; g 8/13 6-9; g 5/06 2-9

effect of—

anger: w93 12/15 32; g91 7/22 14

diet: g90 4/22 5-6; g87 8/22 30

exercise: g99 7/22 6; g98 10/22 28; g87 2/22 22; g87 6/22 29; g86 7/8 30-31

good friends: g 7/07 22

marriage: g92 3/22 28

religion: g00 12/22 28

smoking: g 3/14 3; g 11/09 30; g 2/06 30; g05 12/22 28; g00 10/8 29

social life: g00 4/8 28

walking: g98 7/8 28

watching TV: g 10/12 29

willpower: g90 10/8 29

efforts to increase: g 5/06 3; g00 7/8 20-22; w99 10/15 3

role of telomeres: wp19.3 4-5; g00 7/8 21-22; g00 12/8 18; w99 10/15 5

scientific predictions: w99 10/15 4; g90 4/22 4, 6

scientific proposals: wp19.3 4-5; g 8/13 7; w06 10/1 3, 5; w99 10/15 4-5; g90 4/22 3-4

human potential: w10 12/1 14; w04 11/15 3-4; g99 7/22 5, 11-12; g95 10/22 3-8; rs 245, 247; g88 10/8 23-27

life expectancy: g01 9/8 29; g95 10/22 3-4; w93 11/15 3-4; g93 2/8 28; g90 4/22 7

18th century: g90 4/22 7

ancient Greece and Rome: g05 5/22 3

chart for rich and poor lands and literacy: g05 11/8 5

chart for various countries and times: g86 10/22 21

contributing factors: g 8/13 8; g 11/08 29; g03 2/8 29; g03 9/8 28; g99 7/22 5-11

increase: wp19.3 5; it-2 252; g99 7/8 3; g99 7/22 3-4; g99 12/8 7; g95 10/22 3-4; g90 4/22 7; g88 10/8 23-24; g86 10/22 20-22

Japan: g88 10/8 23

life span differs: g99 7/22 5; g95 10/22 3; g88 10/8 23-24; g86 10/22 20

United States: it-2 252; g90 4/22 7; w88 6/15 27

various lands: g92 11/22 29

women: g97 4/8 31; g94 2/22 28

worldwide: g95 11/22 28; w93 11/15 3

living things with long: wp19.3 5

modern-day man: g92 7/22 3; g88 10/8 23-24; tp 20; g86 10/22 21-22

Japan: g88 11/8 29-30

number of overlapping lifespans from Adam to Abraham: kr 33

populations with long: g90 4/22 5

post-Flood: it-1 610

pre-Flood: wp19.3 7; it-2 252; w10 12/1 12-14; g 7/07 30; g 5/06 8; w02 3/1 5-6; rs 94-95

figures in Masoretic text more accurate than Septuagint: it-1 459

not set at 120 years (Ge 6:3): w10 12/15 30

products claimed to extend: g92 7/22 28-29

prospects for longer: w99 10/15 4-7; g95 10/22 3-11; g90 4/22 2-9

scientifically undetermined: g90 4/22 7

since Moses: it-2 252

women:

life expectancy high in Asia: g94 2/22 28

life expectancy increasing in England and Wales: g86 8/22 30

life span reduced by poor nutrition with frequent pregnancy: g87 7/8 29

outlive men: g02 7/22 29; g87 9/22 29-30

world’s oldest man dies: g86 8/8 31

Quotations

average length of life 73 years: it-2 252

science and medicine have pushed human life expectancy to its natural limit: w92 4/1 7

some people can briefly postpone death in order to reach a psychologically important occasion: g90 10/8 29