Who wants to have live to 100?

I am very glad not to seven years. Seven-year-olds have all sorts of problems before it. Exams, exams, tests, some tests, a few more tests and then a few more tests, just for good measure. What else? Spots. Tests. Heartache. Tests. And now the prospect that they live to 100 years, despite all the pressure of exams.

A long life filled with exams looms for seven years

According to the Office of National Statistics, one third of children born in 2001 centenarians. Currently, only one out of two 85-year-olds expect to reach this milestone. Today there is a huge 9300 people aged 100 or more - but if they are born, there were only 100 people over 100 years old.

I do not know what the odds of a 28-years of life have received a telegram from the monarch, but I have one of these online life expectancy test, which tells you when you die, by a series of simple questions such as: " How often do you exercise? Do you eat junk food at regular intervals? you inject drugs? "

Whether you through the questions, a small figure on the screen changes shape depending on the answer until there was a bloated, wheezing old look through dead eyes on the yellow boxes hamburgers, cigarette butts and beer cans at his feet. Finally, a warning flashes on the screen: "You have six months to live."

In fact, he told me that I would live to 101. I can hardly think enough things to fill my week, let alone another 73 years. Imagine that. When you snuff, assault with a knife 780 percent to reach a tank of fuel you need to remortgage the house, do not you and a loaf of bread costs a few hundred quid.

Worse, at present, our care for the elderly appear to support the concern the kind of quality that the government is proposing to euthanasia as a consultant, the only way for people with dementia. Help the Aged this week warned that a longer life is not necessarily better.

In the past year, said a leading neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, the growing number of centenarians is an important day for us as a threat from Al Qaeda and global warming. "Dying and dementia are nowhere on the political agenda," said Dr. Guy Brown. "The research needs to be redirected here, rather than simply preventing death."

No animal, I can not think much of 100. And when I was a seven-year-old asked what did I do when I grow up, my answer would likely be: "Everything, but really very, very old."