Alright in my game two of my Master Scientists died frombeing overworked. I'm very scared my other epople might die too. So when I tell them to just walk around, swim, or just relax they don't listen and they keep working. What should I do? Should I increase the population? Should I let them work? Or, Should I keep trying to let them relax?

If their status is "full" I wouldn't worry, but if they get injured or weaken for some reason, here are some suggestions (I'm still fairly new at this game so I don't know how effective they are.)

1) Bring your weakened villagers to the food bin and keep them there through several "meals". The status bar may increase a little with 4-5 meals.

2) Check the "desired" job to be Farming for a while (and train your farmers to be scienctists.) Foraging, Harvesting, Fishing (and probably even Watering) is less stressful than Research and they will start to recover.

Or check them to be doctors... they eat and drink regularly on their own.. just take them to the cactus and make sure they get the first notch of training.. after that, they'll take things easy and get back their health
It always seems way longer to get a weakened villager back to full health, so check their health bars and if they go down 2 or 3 notches, take them to the bin a few times, till it jumps back up at least a notch.. then you can get them back to research/building faster.

Sorry you had two of your villagers die like that.

Good advice was given here. I always let me scientists relax when I click on them and see that's what they're doing. As far as I know there's no way we can make them go for a swim, relax, etc.

As others have said, keep an eye on their health bars and if they dip down, take them to the food bin. You may have to do this multiple times. Sometimes you'll get a message that says, "Your villager feels better after eating."

I also take mine to the well and have them drink. It may take a few tries as they may want to water the crops or the field instead. You can also try having them swim in the waters of the lagoon.

Giving them a break and putting them on farming or healing is also an excellent suggestion people gave you. I've had researchers live to be quite old, but those ones had breaks in their "career" as farmers. :] My oldest villagers tend to be farmers, doctors and even builders.

Did you get any indication they were going to die other than the health bar being down? Did they become sick first?

Thanks everyone! All my villagers are doing great! I have 710 pieces of food in the food bin. I got 6 adults, 3 kids, and 2 babies. I also have EVERYONE'S health bar up! Now the only thing that has me worried is my favorite villager is named City. She is the prettiest to me! She is a runner and so she's always on the go... fast! But she's already 44. City is the oldest villager My question is, how old do the villagers die of old age usually?

PS The two that died, really just died suddenly. I think maybe they starved because the food bin was at 0 when they died...

Their longevity is dependent upon several things. The major item that effects how old they will get before dieing is your medicine tech level. At level one typically they will live till the mid to upper 50's. Level two mid to upper 60's and level 3 mid to upper 70's, but I have had villagers live to 102, and have read one person had a villager live to be 103.

Of course your actual mileage may vary.

Wow! 103 years old! I'm really impressed. That's great. My oldest lived to be 87 I think.

Those 102 yr. olds must have been moving mighty slow. LOL.

I just went back to a palm game i neglected for about 2 months lol. I have 3 adults (almost dead, 2 preg), 3 children (almost ready to start working), and 19,000 food lol. I think im going to ressurect and save this village and make it a thriving community on my palm pilot.

I have a case of the fridays im actually at work but not horribly busy and its lunch time