William Greider Quotes

Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite some gains made against it, is becoming even more prominent.

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

You're going to die sooner.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress.

People who died could not come back to life, so guaranteeing the right to life should not be a thing of the future, but should be advancing right now.

No one should die when they're 50.

When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

He that lives most dies most.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?

My experience is, people who retire die sooner than they should have.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.