In the New Age of Hypochondria, Who Needs the Mortality Test?
The Scotsman › February 16, 2006
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HOW are you? No, I really mean it. I want to know. You're looking well. But that may not be how you feel. For now that there seem to be more underwater basket-weavers in Scotland than regular churchgoers, the anxieties over responsibilities of our own mortality become ever more personal. Only, without the Pearly Gates pay-off.
So it's hardly surprising that we scamper into Holland & Barrett to load up with the chemical equivalent of the witch-doctor's fetish. What's GBP 6.99 for a jumbo package of starflower oil, or slow-release vitamin B, if it can help chase the shadow of death for another few megabytes?See the full content of this document
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In the New Age of Hypochondria, Who Needs the Mortality Test?
After all, we are told almost daily that our lifespan is little more than a matter of choice. Threescore years and ten may have been sufficient for Moses, but that was before All-Bran a...
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