How to Live Forever

HOW TO LIVE FOREVER

Directed by Mark Wexler

90 minutes   Rated PG

Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does a chain-smoking, beer-drinking centenarian marathoner have all the answers? What about an elder porn star.

Wexler contrasts these unusual characters with the insights of health, fitness and life-extension experts in his engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, HOW TO LIVE FOREVER evolves into a thought-provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.

Tuesday, Wednesday September 13 & 14

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road

(at Burcham Road)

East Lansing

7:30pm

Friday, Saturday September 16 and 17

7pm & 9pm

Sunday, September 18

7pm only

Wells Hall

(don't let the construction discourage you, it's open)

Red Cedar Road

MSU campus, East Lansing

Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3

A documentary following Mark Wexler's worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old -

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How To Live Forever - A documentary following Mark Wexler's worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old - and what it could mean to really live forever. Featuring Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller, Jack LaLanne, Ray Kurzweil, Suzanne Somers and Marianne Williamson

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