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Chang:
It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet - the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, "He worried himself to death," or "This thing or that killed him"? Robert Conway:
Oh, very often. Chang:
And very true. Your lives are, as a rule, shorter. Not so much by natural death, as by indirect suicide
It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet - the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, "He worried himself to death," or "This thing or that killed him"? Robert Conway:
Oh, very often. Chang:
And very true. Your lives are, as a rule, shorter. Not so much by natural death, as by indirect suicide
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I should've told you it's quite common here to live to a very ripe old age
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Climate diet mountain water you might say
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But we like to believe it is the absence of struggle in the way we live
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In your countries on the other hand how often do you hear the expression
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He worried himself to death or This thing or that killed him
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Very often And very true
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Your lives are therefore as a rule shorter
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Not so much by natural death as by indirect suicide
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Movie Summary
When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.

