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Originally Posted by Lenny2
Also something most people don't realize is that we aren't living drastically longer lives than we were 30 or 40 years ago.
"Average" life span is exactly that....the overall average.
We've done alot to bring our infant mortality rate down to practically zero in the U.S., that alone has raised the average significantly.
Its not that more people are living to be 100, its that more people are living to be 1.
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In 1953, he said, Queen Elizabeth sent 60 letters to people more than 100 years old in the British Commonwealth. By 2004, the number had risen to 6,000, thanks largely to medical advances far less significant than what the next 50 years will bring.