I wish my aunt could have participated. She lived well into her nineties. She smoked two packs of those little brown cigar-ettes a day and drank two bottles of canadian whiskey a week. I'll bet her genes would have been an eye-opener.

Her mind was pretty sharp until she turned 90, she never had heart disease, diabetes or cancer and died with all her own teeth. An amazing woman.

Me, I'm just happy to have reached the ripe old age of 61 without cancer, diabetes or heart disease. (knock on wood) Who knows, maybe I'll make it to 62.

Cloris Leachman is a HOOT! I wish her well. I loved her on Dancing With the Stars. She was great. I wish her all the best.

I love her! Thank you for such wonderful memories.

I would buy me a cemetery plot, start grooming the greens

to see how it would look when I am dead.

Think dead before you die, just like; who is first?

the egg or the chicken. Anyway, death is a free flight

to the cosmos, the Russian will charge you millions.

What a wonderful thought!

If it is possible to isolate and replicate certain genetic traits, some terminally literate individuals could actually "buy a sense of humor" .....;)

"Frau Blucher"...

As long as she doesn't spit on me.

I think you just have to have to have a great sense of humor & laugh a lot, but having that "wacko" gene doesn't hurt either!

I have always love Chloris.  May she live to be 105, and die on stage after her 200th performance as Frau Blooker in "Young Frankenstien" when a light falls accidently from the GRID.  We should all be half has happy and healthy as she.

What's this "who's(who is) spit"? Whose, maybe.

Long ago, on The Tonight Show, Cloris Leachman recalled how the family used one bucket of water on the farm in Nebraska. First, you washed the asparagus, then you washed the baby. Lastly, you scrubbed the floor.

No that has anything to do with her longevity, but it made me love her more. Still love her. Besides the genes. that tart tongue of hers probably helps keep her young too.

Rock on, Cloris!!!

Cloris is the runaway star of "Raising Hope". I wish they'd give her more screen time. A true star in more ways than we can count.

Finally, a story that actually made me smile. Wonders never cease.

Cloris Leachman looked old when she was young. Now she looks young for being old.

I'm like Cloris in that I picked my parent's well. That is what I call good genes. My brother smokes (well used to), drinks excessively, is obese (has sleep apnea), and eats terribly. However, his cholesterol is still in the "good" range and he's managed to miss most of the bullets that got some of his friends.

Diet and exercise and optimize the effect of the genes you have, but unless you have some fairly good genes to begin with, the effect can be fairly limited, which is one reason why we have such a problem determining what is the best diet, etc. I predict it will depend very closely upon your genetic basis and that we will find people fall into certain groups where say red meat is ok and others where it leads to cardiac disease. Similarly for which diet to use: low carb, high protein...or the reverse? Well, it depends upon the genes, so everyone has to their own experimentation and find what works for them, not just follow the latest fad.

I adore you, Cloris. Always have, always will. You rock!

They should contact my dad. He's 87, has mildly elevated cholesterol but no cancer, heart disease or diabetes. And he's still one of the smartest guys I know.

Did they get some of George Burns spit?

Notice that quite a few entertainers manage to live long and have fun well into their 80s and 90s maybe it is that they are doing what they love, are active and have a positive outlook on life as well as having great genes....hmmm?

You are correct rockjockII.