Hullo....many thanks for such a nice email. I will convey your kind message to my aunt. I have had experiences of ghostly happenings as I rented a haunted medieval house in East Devon some years ago. I knew it was reputed to be haunted and my sister and I went there to see for ourselves. It most certainly was haunted and we were frightened out of our wits. We saw nothing but heard plenty, as ghosts had been seen from time to time. Things like disembodied voices talking and laughing away, something tapping all night long under the beds, a peculiar swishing sound coming between us while we were washing up in the kitchen. And the times we heard someone going up and down the stairs and then walking in the room above us. This is what makes me think that there is a spirit world. As regards longevity.......did you see the TV programme last week on the people living on the Japanese island of Okinawa? Many of them were 100 years old, even more were 102 and one was 107. None of them smoked or drank, none of them ate meat, only fish. They had lots of sweet potatoes and never ate more than around 1200 calories a day and every one of them was very slim. All of them had their faculties. This must be food for thought! Kind regards to all from Margaret.....