Lifespan Expancy and Material and Cultural Change

[Person Man]

Today, I would say "A good run" is about 90. The U.S. Life Expancy is 78 or 79, but around 81 or 83 in the Social Democracies and the Technocratic City States.

[dead0man]

It depends on how hamstrung medical advances become when/if the US gets socialized medicine.

[Josh/Devilman88]

My age ground(believe born in the 80s), will on avg live to be 100 years old.

[Sensei]

option 2

[Albus Dumbledore]

Over 100. Who wants to attend the 100th anniversary of Atlas's founding?

[War on Want]

It depends on how hamstrung medical advances become when/if the US gets socialized medicine.

hahahaha which is why Europe obiously has terrible care and is living in the past.

[MasterJedi]

Probably Option 1.

[Person Man]

I think option 3. I bet with option 2, the retirement age will be like 90.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Over 100. Who wants to attend the 100th anniversary of Atlas's founding?

I'll be there.

[dead0man]

It depends on how hamstrung medical advances become when/if the US gets socialized medicine.

hahahaha which is why Europe obiously has terrible care and is living in the past.

Yeah, no medical technologies designed in the US are ever used in Europe!  It's smart that we never share information with our closest friends.

[War on Want]

It depends on how hamstrung medical advances become when/if the US gets socialized medicine.

hahahaha which is why Europe obiously has terrible care and is living in the past.

Yeah, no medical technologies designed in the US are ever used in Europe!  It's smart that we never share information with our closest friends.

Touche, but they still develop lots of technologies and are still moving quickly into the future, like us. I still say by 2050 the life expectancy in the US will be 90-100.

[Person Man]

It depends on how hamstrung medical advances become when/if the US gets socialized medicine.

hahahaha which is why Europe obiously has terrible care and is living in the past.

Yeah, no medical technologies designed in the US are ever used in Europe!  It's smart that we never share information with our closest friends.

Touche, but they still develop lots of technologies and are still moving quickly into the future, like us. I still say by 2050 the life expectancy in the US will be 90-100.

...and by 2075ish, it should be about 92 or 93 (overall), with a natural life span of about 105-110, with a few cases to 120-125.

The 21st century could be like the Golden Age of Greece, where people lived long lives and only start aging 5 years before their death (so aging would be pretty quick).

[??????????]

Second to last option. Other then that I think we've probably reached the peak of maximum life span. Consider our very early ancestors were lucky to make 35. I just don't think the human body can physically endure much past 100 (except for the very few lucky) even with medical interventions.

[John Dibble]

Probably the first, possibly the second.

And the word is expectancy, btw.

[Person Man]

Probably the first, possibly the second.

And the word is expectancy, btw.

Touche

Second to last option. Other then that I think we've probably reached the peak of maximum life span. Consider our very early ancestors were lucky to make 35. I just don't think the human body can physically endure much past 100 (except for the very few lucky) even with medical interventions.

Good call. Though, most people died because they got a disease they couldn't work through or were killed violently. People talk about dimishing morals in today's society when murder and larceny were much higher in the medival and early modern periods than they are today.

[JohnFKennedy]

It depends on how hamstrung medical advances become when/if the US gets socialized medicine.

hahahaha which is why Europe obiously has terrible care and is living in the past.

Yeah, no medical technologies designed in the US are ever used in Europe!  It's smart that we never share information with our closest friends.

YEAH! No medical technologies or breakthroughs from Europe are EVER used in the US either.

[dead0man]

Exactly, we should be sharing with each other.  I'm glad you see that part of it my way

[Person Man]

Is that what we are talking about, though?

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I'm not so sure; today's "leaders" are often so short-sighted. Their lack of long term thinking is obviously going to hurt life expectancies in 2075.

[Person Man]

I'm not so sure; today's "leaders" are often so short-sighted. Their lack of long term thinking is obviously going to hurt life expectancies in 2075.

Well, I guess if you are unlucky enough to fall into their pitfalls, other than that, we should be alright.

[opebo]

Should be largely unchanged.  'End-of-life' medical technology is enormously overrated, and really mostly ineffective.  What we might see is some progress on a few big diseases like hiv/aids and cancer, thus increasing the overall average lifespan.  But as for as many individuals going much past 80 or 90, it is unlikely.

Most of the increase in elderly over the last century has been due to improvements in standard of living, childhood nutrition and preventative care.  These things have been in decline for 30 years now, and seem unlikely to change course.

[Person Man]

What do you mean by "End of Life"? Pallative Care or actual tissue and cellular repair?