> This is a myth. You hear it every day on the Great Werlitzer: TV.
> Read how long people lived in Biblical times. Methuselah lived until he
> was
> 969.
>

Susan...

That we live longer now than we once did is no myth.  It's supported by
innumerable pieces of evidence.  That anyone, ever has lived to 969, now
THAT is a true myth, in the literal meaning of the word.  In other
words, it never happened.

Erik