LIVE HARD, DIE YOUNG

James Dean was 24 and at the height of his movie career when he died in a car crash. A report finds that lots of people seem to think that may be the best way to go. Researchers asked people between the ages of 18 and 63 whether they thought it would be better to end a wonderful life at its peak or allow an equally wonderful life to last a few additional post-peak years. Most bought into what the study’s authors call the “James Dean Effect” – dying at a high point – regardless of