The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

One morning in early January, David Murdock awoke to an unsettling sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t believe it, because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in his immodest estimation, perfect health. But now there was this undeniable imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the distant past. Incredibly, infuriatingly, he had a sore throat.

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The Die-Later Diet

• Murdock Recipe: Vegetable Soup (March 6, 2011)