Subject K is a forty-four year old women; she has a medium build, a height of 5-6, and a weight of 200 pounds. Before Subject K completed the LifeScan questionnaire, she answered three questions about how she might die; what would be the likely cause of her death? What behaviors might increase her chance of dying from those causes? And what behaviors might decrease her chance of dying from those causes? Subject K predicted that she would die from old age and/or natural causes. To defend this belief, Subject K stated that her family has a history of living above the average age for woman; her grandmother lived to the age of 92 and her mother is very healthy at the age of 75. Subject K was not naive to some of the current health issues she faces
