The Billionaire Planning his 125th Birthday

[Connemara]

This is a funny/cool article from the NYT Magazine. This guy sounds like StephenHero. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/ma...general&src=me This is his "longevity diet." http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...l?ref=magazine

In 2006, when he first met with D. H. Griffin, whose demolition company was to prepare the site for the research campus, he took note of Griffin’s size. At 5-foot-11, he weighed about 285 pounds. “You’re probably going to die before this job’s done, because you’re so fat and unhealthy,” Murdock told Griffin, as Griffin recalls, adding that Griffin’s family would wind up paying extra money for an extra-large coffin. Later he did something more constructive: he offered Griffin a bonus if he lost 30 pounds. Griffin did and collected $100,000. He has since regained 22 of them. In restaurants Murdock will push the butter dish toward the server and say, “Take the death off the table.” He will ask employees or friends who are putting sugar in coffee or milk in tea why they want to kill themselves and will upbraid people leaving healthful food unfinished about the vitamins they’re squandering. I experienced this during a visit in early February to his California ranch, where I joined him for lunch: a six-fruit smoothie; a mixed-leaf salad with toasted walnuts, fennel and blood orange; a soup with more than eight vegetables and beans; a sliver of grilled Dover sole on a bed of baby carrots, broccoli and brown rice. “How did you like your soup?” he asked me after one of his household staff members removed it. I said it was just fine. “Did you eat all your juice?” he added, referring to the broth. I said I had left perhaps an inch of it. He shot me a stern look. “You got a little bit of it,” he said. “I get a lot — every bit I can.” He shrugged his shoulders. “That’s O.K. You’ll go before me.

 

[CunningSmeagol]

"Upbraid" is a good word.

 

[Tangfastic]

Reminds me of the portrayal of the Kelloggs founder in the film 'the Road to Wellville'. Favourite quote: "My stools are immaculate - they smell of freshly baked biscuits".

 

[willpower]

Those pictures are breathtaking

 

[05charley]

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[dfagdfsh]

can't buy your way out of genetics

 

[Nil]

Sounds like an old man who has yet to come to terms with his own mortality.

 

[MrG]

Originally Posted by Nil

Sounds like an old man who has yet to come to terms with his own mortality.

+1

He strikes me as completely obsessed with death, and desperate to convince himself he can beat it.

 

[CDFS]

Originally Posted by MrG

+1

He strikes me as completely obsessed with death, and desperate to convince himself he can beat it.
What would be wrong with that?

 

[MrG]

Originally Posted by CDFS

What would be wrong with that?

Constantly fixating on the end seems to me like a terrible way to go through life.

 

[StephenHero]

If I haven't clocked out by 75 I'm going to pick up a negligent habit of base jumping.

 

[willpower]

He has fish for lunch and dinner? Isn't too much fish supposed to be toxic due to pollution?

 

[CDFS]

Originally Posted by MrG

Constantly fixating on the end seems to me like a terrible way to go through life.

It is. But not doing so, at least often seems rather

to me.

 

[Pantisocrat]

He will ask employees or friends who are putting sugar in coffee or milk in tea why they want to kill themselves and will upbraid people leaving healthful food unfinished about the vitamins they’re squandering.