Is Sumner Redstone Immortal?

Sumner Redstone, the chairman and controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, was quoted in Maria Bartiromo, Redstone ‘Legacies are for Dead People,’ BusinessWeek, Aug. 6, 2007, 28, at 31, as stating:

As John Malone said to me when I met with him recently at the Allen & Co. conference, “Some of us are going to die, Sumner, but you’re never going to die, so you don’t have to have a succcession plan.” * * * You know I’m not going to discuss my will, my trusts, or whatever.  But, believe me, what I do, as I’ve done throughout my life, will be appropriate.