Compassion for oneself and others, adaptability, philosophic inquiry (the ability to ask questions about everything). If you cannot ask questions about everything for whatever the reason often your life is cut short by this inability.
For example, my father and my best friend as a child from church were not adaptable in life enough to survive past 70. My friend died at 62 because he wouldn't have open heart surgery and my father died at 69 (even though his health otherwise was better than almost anyone) because he didn't like dealing with doctors and preferred preventative medicine. So, when he got prostate cancer he didn't have it treated in time and died 5 years later. Both of these deaths had to do with their religious beliefs too.
I separated from my parents and my friends church at age 21 because I grew up and started asking questions and didn't get useful answers to my questions. At the time this was very difficult for me to separate from my childhood church and all my friends. So, it was lonely but over time I realized I had made the right decision in life and here at 76 I see it had to be this way because if I'm not allowed to think my own thoughts and to ask questions about everything in my life I would have died at 40 or 50 years of age I see now.
Not wanting medical interventions is a nice thought but not if you want to live a long time. Without medical interventions in my own life I would have died somewhere between 45 and 50.
So, if you want to live a long time be sure you have good medical insurance otherwise often people are bankrupt because of health problems or they are dead before their time.
Asking questions about everything in your life is one of the ways to live a long time.
However, 1 out of 100 people are just very lucky and they live to be old without really any health problems along the way. But, this is really unusual.
By God's Grace
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