A Beginner's Guide to Eternal Life

In political columnist Michael Kinsley’s book Old Age: A Beginner's Guide, he advises people to seek "long years of good health, not long years of simply breathing in and out."

When you look at beginner's guides, you discover one thing pretty quickly: Most deal with very complicated topics. For  example:

A Beginner's Guide to Web Development.

+ The Beginner's Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization.

+ A Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics.

+ The Beginner's Guide to Scrum and Agile Project Management.

+ A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe.


Suppose God was using this last one when light was created and the stars flung into space?

Anyway, now another beginner's guide has come out that deals with a stage of life that we all hope to live long enough to face: old age. Michael Kinsley, a political columnist, has written a book called Old Age: A Beginner's Guide. In it, he advises people to seek "long years of good health, not long years of simply breathing in and out."

Kinsley speaks from experience. Although he is only 65, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease when he was just 43 years old. "Having Parkinson's is very much like growing old," he observes....