Actually he doesn't look too bad for his age...........................
Posted on 08/31/2017 11:45:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Dutch researchers claimed Thursday to have discovered the maximum age "ceiling" for human lifespan, despite growing life expectancy because of better nutrition, living conditions and medical care.
Mining data from some 75,000 Dutch people whose exact ages were recorded at the time of death, statisticians at Tilburg and Rotterdam's Erasmus universities pinned the maximum ceiling for female lifespan at 115.7 years.
Men came in slightly lower at 114.1 years in the samples taken from the data which spans the last 30 years, said Professor John Einmahl, one of three scientists conducting the study.
"On average, people live longer, but the very oldest among us have not gotten older over the last thirty years," Einmahl told AFP.
"There is certainly some kind of a wall here. Of course the average life expectancy has increased," he said, pointing out the number of people turning 95 in The Netherlands had almost tripled.
"Nevertheless, the maximum ceiling itself hasn't changed," he said.
Lifespan is the term used to describe how long an individual lives, while life expectancy is the average duration of life that individuals in an age group can expect to have—a measure of societal wellbeing.
The Dutch findings come in the wake of those by US-based researchers who last year claimed a similar age ceiling, but who added that exceptionally long-lived individuals were not getting as old as before.
Einmahl and his researchers disputed the latter finding, saying their conclusions deduced by using a statistical brand called "Extreme Value Theory", showed almost no fluctuation in maximum lifespan.
Einmahl said however there were still some people who had bent the norm, like Frenchwomen Jeanne Calment who died at the ripe old age of 122 years and 164 days.
Calment remains the oldest verified woman to date.
Extreme Value Theory is a brand of statistics that measures data and answers questions at extreme ends of events such as lifespan or disasters.
Einmahl said his group's findings will be submitted for publication in a peer review magazine "within the next month or so."
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70 just to start.................
Tell that to Keith Richards.
Pickling doesn’t count...................
yeah how bout that...
it suddenly stops...
its called...wait for it...
DYING...
They used to say that if the locomotive went over 30mph, it’d suck all the oxygen out and passengers would suffocate.
NO WAY!!!
How much state funding and taxes did it take to come up with that brilliant conclusion?
The stupidity of socialist nations is beyond astonishing.
Actually he doesn't look too bad for his age...........................
“Ein mal” (the German spelling of this researcher’s name) means “one more.”
Just saying ...
The Bible also said Noah lived to the ripe old age of 950.
...Dutch scientists say human lifespan has limits...
How much of the taxpayer’s money did the Obama administration contribute to the Dutch “scientists” for this revelation?
I’m never going to die (Jesus did that for me and my old man died with him) and I will go to Heaven probably when I’m around 120 years old.
It’s a finite limit, usually reached in males about the time they utter, “Yeah, those jeans make your butt look fat.”
I agree that “natural” human lifespan has topped out near 120, the next step to extend human life will have to go farther that is naturally possible (basically, replacing organs with regenerated or mechanical parts, rebuilding DNA, Nanobots to fix problems at the microscopic level, etc). That should be good to get you to 200 (provided you can afford it). At the point some interesting problems arise in that your brain essentially runs out of “storage” capacity.
Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
Psalm 90:10
As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.
Just finished reading it for the second time last month......................
TV said Grandpa Munster was like 700 years old...I’m just sayin’!
It’s not the First Death I’m afraid of, it’s the Second....................
Only if you read it OUT OF SEQUENCE!!
The length of the ‘telomeres’ at the ends of your DNA determine your time on earth..................assuming you don’t do something to hasten it................
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