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Novenachama
Unfortunately life expectancy is poorly understood and most people think that it is increasing the age to which they can live. However this is not the case because a statistical anomaly takes the average of the age of a person's death which includes everyone meaning infants, children, teenagers right through to those in their old age. This means that if the rates of infant mortality are reduced then the average life expectancy is actually increased overall dramatically.
almxxx
I was having the same discussion the other day, saying that infant deaths and accidental deaths, murders, suicides, etc., should not be considered in the longevity stats. We will find that older old age hasn't increased at all. We need some stats about the ease of life, so we can have some improvements.