re: If you could pick one stock today to hold till you die...

It sounds like you simply want to pick stocks that have a 30 year history of increasing dividends. That's fine and all, but Google would have answered your original question.

And there is no guarantee that a company that increased dividends for the past 30 years will do so for the next 30, which is my point. If you want safety plus potential for income, buy the Wilshire 5000 plus a good mix of bonds plus overseas equities and bonds too. Picking a single stock just doesn't give you as good a good risk/reward ratio.