No limit to human longevity?

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Does human life span really have a limit?

June 28, 2018 by Dennis Thompson

The limits of human existence might not be as limited as we have long thought.

A person's risk of death slows and even plateaus above age 105, a new study reports, challenging previous research saying there's a cutoff point past which the human life span cannot extend.
Longevity pioneers lucky enough to make it past the perilous 70s, 80s and 90s could potentially live well into their 110s, if fortune remains on their side, said senior author Kenneth Wachter, a professor of demography and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Our data tell us that there is no fixed limit to the human life span yet in sight," Wachter said. "Very few of us are going to reach those kinds of ages, but the fact that mortality rates are not getting worse forever and ever tells us there may well be more progress to be made improving survival past the ages of 80 to 90. This is a valuable, encouraging discovery."

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The Ever-Growing Reality That We Might Be Able to Live Forever
Or at least for another 1,000 years

Zaron Burnett III December 28, 2018

Generally speaking, there are two schools of thought on how we will reach the Methuselarity of eternal life: One side is best represented by Aubrey de Grey, a gerontologist, author of Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime and chief science officer at SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence), a nonprofit he co-founded to function as a research hub for longevity science. It’s smartly located in Palo Alto, right in the center of the hive of tech companies — that rare spot on Earth home to an inordinate number of billionaire investors and ego-driven geniuses.

The other side is best represented by Bill Faloon, an advocate for longevity research, co-founder of the Life Extension nutritional supplement company and founder of the Church of Perpetual Life in Hollywood, Florida. It’s a beacon for silver heads that don’t want to die. Many people online think Faloon is a charlatan, a patent medicine-selling con man. Yet, an equal number think he’s fully legit, an irresistible force pushing this nascent field of science forward with his generous support of research.

I say: in this body? On this plane of existence? No thanks... (But I'm Gen X, so it's a moot point for me anyway.)

Another piece on this topic:

The Ever-Growing Reality That We Might Be Able to Live Forever
Or at least for another 1,000 years

Zaron Burnett III December 28, 2018


I say: in this body? On this plane of existence? No thanks... (But I'm Gen X, so it's a moot point for me anyway.)

Relevant. https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2019-01...worms.html