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The Resurrected Body is Free From the Restriction on Lifespan

42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;

I read with interest Internet accounts on how long living creatures live. Let’s start with creepy crawlies. The itsy-bitsy spider lives a short 100 days. The nuclear-surviving cockroach actually lives just up to seven years. The lifespan of an adult American cockroach is between 6-12 months, but the bad news is that a female can produce up to eight hundred cockroaches a year. The average life span of a slithering snake is 15-20 years.

Water creatures differ in lifespan according to their species. The average lifespan for guppies is 3-5 years, but 10-30 years for Goldfish and Koi. The Chinese longevity gui or turtle lives but 25 years; the seal lives longer at 46 years.

Birds, also, differ in life expectancy. Canaries live 7-10 years, doves 10-15 years, parrots 15-20 years, and cockatoos live to a ripe old age of 30-40+ years.

Animals do not necessarily live longer than other creatures. The average lifespan of any dog is 10-12 years. The poodle lives 10-12 years but the small Chihuahua 13 - 15 years. The cat with nine lives has an average lifespan 12-15 years for indoor cats and 2-3 years for outdoor cats. The rat’s is 33 months and a year longer for lab rats.

Earthlive.org documents the age of mammals in years:

Grey Wolf/ Tiger/Leopard/Jaguar - 20

Camel - 25.5

Indian Rhinoceros - 47

Chimpanzee and Orang-utan (the longevity monkeys) - 55+

Indian Elephant - 78

http://www.earthlife.net/mammals/age.html

Man, in contrast, is durable. World Health Organization estimated that people in 24 countries live over 70 years, and half of the WHO member countries live over 60 years. At the other extreme people in 32 countries live less than 40 years. Many of these are countries with major epidemics of HIV/AIDS, among other causes. All the bottom 10 countries were in sub-Saharan Africa, with Ethiopia lowest at 33.5. http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-life.html

The highest average life expectancy in the world is in Okinawa, Japan, at 81.2 years - 86 for women, 75 for men. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1977733.stm

The latest figure for America is 77.6 years but obesity can reduce a person’s life by 2-5 years (USA TODAY 03/17/2005 “Obesity threatens life expectancy”). Smoking slices a life by 5-6 years on the average.

Psalms 90:10 reads, “The length of our days is seventy years--or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.”

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