" Without a strong advertising campaign, he predicts, "we would die in a vicious cycle of low profile and low sales.

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Yet how many billions of people would die if we did that?

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"Of course my father was still a relatively young man back then, 62, and we had no idea he would die at the relatively young age of 65, " she says.

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"We felt that if the school closed the Welsh language would die in the village, " she added.

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In other words, if we cured all diseases and prevented all accidents, people would still die (of old age) in a narrow bell curve distribution centered on 85.

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We are die-hard Laker fans and Magic was our childhood hero, so hanging with him for a night would literally be a dream come true.

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"If we could keep people who are still functioning from having any further decline for five years--then they would probably die from something else, " says Todd Golde, a neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic, in Jacksonville, Fla.

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