Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- To Doris Medina 1929–1993
- PART ONE Who ages?
- PART TWO How do we age?
- INTRODUCTION
- 4 How the skin and hair age
- 5 The aging of bones, muscles and joints
- 6 The aging of the brain
- 7 How the heart ages
- 8 The aging of the lungs
- 9 What happens to the digestion
- 10 How the senses age
- 11 The aging of the reproductive system
- PART THREE Why do we age?
- Further reading
- Index
INTRODUCTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- To Doris Medina 1929–1993
- PART ONE Who ages?
- PART TWO How do we age?
- INTRODUCTION
- 4 How the skin and hair age
- 5 The aging of bones, muscles and joints
- 6 The aging of the brain
- 7 How the heart ages
- 8 The aging of the lungs
- 9 What happens to the digestion
- 10 How the senses age
- 11 The aging of the reproductive system
- PART THREE Why do we age?
- Further reading
- Index
Summary
In the world of strange and unusual wills, the last requests of Charles Millar must rank as the most capricious of all time.
In life, Millar was a quiet man. Friends even described him as straitlaced. But he had another, far more interesting side. Millar was a Canadian attorney and, unknown to many, fabulously wealthy. Probably reasoning that death made these quiet constraints pointless, he funneled all his capriciousness, humor and satire into his last will and testament. This was accomplished by donating large sums of money with interesting conditions attached. In so doing, Millar showed to the world its desire for greed, and the great lengths to which people would go, to receive money – even from dead people.
Some of his victims were professional acquaintances. He had friends, for example, who were judges and preachers. Several of them had a vocal and quite public opposition to organized gambling. One judge always ruled severely when cases involving gambling came through his court. One preacher gave fiery sermons on the spiritual degradation inflicted by the addictive demon.
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- The Clock of AgesWhy We Age, How We Age, Winding Back the Clock, pp. 71 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996