Jared Kushner wants to live forever

[Jonathan101]

In other news, Jared Kushner believes he's either part of the last generation to die or the first to live forever.

He thinks / hopes that he's going to be literally immortal.

[clearspira]

In other news, Jared Kushner believes he's either part of the last generation to die or the first to live forever.

He thinks / hopes that he's going to be literally immortal.

At the risk of derailing this thread, our life expectancy isn't even at 100 yet. And in fact, its not even reliably at 80 even if that is the average.
Jared Kushner is a nut.

[Riedquat]

In other news, Jared Kushner believes he's either part of the last generation to die or the first to live forever.

He thinks / hopes that he's going to be literally immortal.

At the risk of derailing this thread, our life expectancy isn't even at 100 yet. And in fact, its not even reliably at 80 even if that is the average.
Jared Kushner is a nut.

Life expectency isn't something I'd expect to gradually rise continually. It's increased to where it has due to being able to deal with a lot of things that killed us off before the body starts falling apart on its own, and we've not got anything really to deal with that.

If you're being pedantic "forever" is just plain physically possible. The universe will eventually fizzle out in to nothing much. Even if it wasn't the idea of still being around after a trillion trillion years doesn't sound much fun.

I agree it sounds nutty though.

[Draco Dracul]

In other news, Jared Kushner believes he's either part of the last generation to die or the first to live forever.

He thinks / hopes that he's going to be literally immortal.

At the risk of derailing this thread, our life expectancy isn't even at 100 yet. And in fact, its not even reliably at 80 even if that is the average.
Jared Kushner is a nut.

Life expectancy in the US is actually going down.

[TGLS]

If you're being pedantic "forever" is just plain physically possible. The universe will eventually fizzle out in to nothing much. Even if it wasn't the idea of still being around after a trillion trillion years doesn't sound much fun.

I am reminded of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

youtu.be/jdCB9yE9Hcc

But on a more constructive note, the main reason life expectancies appeared to rise is the drop infant mortality.

[Riedquat]

But on a more constructive note, the main reason life expectancies appeared to rise is the drop infant mortality.

That's certainly accounted for the lion's share of average life expectancy numbers; quotes of "back centuries ago someone over 40 would've been old" are the result of misunderstanding the impact of infant mortality. You'd have been lucky to survive childhood, but if you did going on to forty wouldn't have been too surprising.

We have made some progress at the top end though, with more people living in to their 80s or 90s. But the absolute top hasn't really been pushed. There were always a few people who made it to a hundred. Not as many as now, but still about the same ceiling.

[McAvoy]

But on a more constructive note, the main reason life expectancies appeared to rise is the drop infant mortality.

That's certainly accounted for the lion's share of average life expectancy numbers; quotes of "back centuries ago someone over 40 would've been old" are the result of misunderstanding the impact of infant mortality. You'd have been lucky to survive childhood, but if you did going on to forty wouldn't have been too surprising.

We have made some progress at the top end though, with more people living in to their 80s or 90s. But the absolute top hasn't really been pushed. There were always a few people who made it to a hundred. Not as many as now, but still about the same ceiling.

Exactly. A better figure for life expectancy would count anyone who lived past let's say 16.

Also there was a lot of war that killed men and likewise women giving birth was highly risky for them.

The only way to get that average life expectancy to jump up to even 80 would mean curing let's say many forms of cancer.

Even then we still get what normally would look like a healthy person dropping dead from a heart attack at age 28 for example. Or birth defects like having walnut sized kidneys.