Carol Horner wrote: > Barb Rager had a question about this in answer to which I submit the > fact that about ten years after being diagnosed with PD, my husband was > able to purchase additional life insurace quite easily--and at preferred > rates (since he was not a smoker). So here we are still paying those > premiums--another ten years later. :-) Perhaps I used the incorrect words. He "died of his PD" indeed, but perhaps I should have written, "He died of complications of his PD" (he actually died of pneumonia). He was, BTW, 92 years old and had lived with the PD for some 10 years. Best, Bob *********************************** ROBERT A. FINK, M. D., F.A.C.S. Neurological Surgery 2500 Milvia Street Suite 222 Berkeley, CA 94704-2636 USA Phone: (510) 849-2555 FAX: (510) 849-2557 WWW: <http://www.dovecom.com/rafink/> mailto:[log in to unmask] "Ex Tristitia Virtus" ***********************************