One of my favorite Queen songs is Who Wants to Live Forever? I am not sure I do.

So I know I won't live forever, anyway, but I see so many headlines these days about how to lengthen our lives, and captions like "you too can live to be 120!" with a picture of some cute, smiling little old lady in a French nursing home underneath.

But I have a question. Two, in fact. One, do I actually want to live that long, and two, can I afford to?

Did any of you catch Barbara Walters on Oprah yesterday? In an hour-long interview, she discussed all the revelations from her new memoir, Audition—a book that I couldn’t have imagined being at all interested in reading a day ago and is now already on my Amazon wish list. I kid you not. It honestly sounds that good.

ABC will air Barbara Walters' special report, “Live to be 150 . . . Can You Do It?” on Tuesday, April 1, at 10:00 p.m. (ET). http://www.alcornews.org/weblog/2008/03/...

The report intends to enlighten us on how we can live a long life, who is and what this special generation does to keep going.