Humans may one day live to be 200

Doreen Picozzi
6 min readAug 9, 2021

The promise of extreme longevity can make you wish you were dead

How long is too long when it comes to a lifetime? Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash

Since 2016, I have been sharing a video with my broadcast students featuring a live television interview with a lovely woman named Flossie Dickey. Flossie died about nine months after the news report which aired on her 110th birthday. Her longevity earned her the distinction of Washington state’s…

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Doreen Picozzi

Former journalist, former press secretary to a public official, now teacher of high school journalism and English, devoted wife, and mom of a true gentleman.