Pray and Live Longer!?!

LiveScience has an article that purports to show that Church attendance prolongs life. This can be anecdotally proven by my mother, who prays daily and is sprightly at about nine full decades into her existence.

Roman Catholics no longer require Sunday Mass attendance after the age of eighty, but it's okay to go, thus hedging one's bet given the new "scientific" data! I myself pray the rosary, just like a lot of people, including Garry Wills, the noted writer and leftish commentator. Wills was a Jesuit seminarian and never lost the soothing relaxation which prayer bestows.

The Muslims are aware of this and recite the ninety-nine attributes/names of Allah on their 33-bead prayer beads. Good for the nerves and for longevity, perhaps.