People are dying older, but their obit pictures are getting younger.

That's what Ohio State University gerontologist Keith Anderson discovered when he examined 400 obituary photos from the years 1967, '77, '87 and '97. Poring over microfilm copies of a Cleveland newspaper's gloomiest pages, he and his colleague Jina Han tried to estimate the ages of the deceased from their pictures. They labeled any photos in which the people looked at least 15 years younger than their actual ages as & ...

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