Just think of the consequences that a slower aging process and lower global mortality rates would do to a world population of 9 billion expected by 2050.
As we’ve already achieved with current technology.
I stumbled across an article yesterday about South Carolina. Said that in 1900, only 3% of that state’s population was over the age of 65. It’s now nearly 25%. Because in olden times, people died young of what are now easily treatable conditions.
However, by allowing longer lifespans, we’ve created a host of new medical problems. Things like Alzheimer’s and other conditions of advanced age that didn’t exist back then because most people didn’t live long enough to be affected by them.
I have a theory on aging that I came up with. Goes like this:
If you live to an advanced age, but are in poor health, you likely don’t have good genetics and probably would have died young in an earlier time. If you enjoy good health, you likely would have lived to advanced age at any time in history.