And then there is Psalm 90
10 Our days may come to seventy years,
or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
12 Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom
Also Vlad — no, people in previous generations didn’t believe themselves to be the last generation — that fallacy was only in 999 and then after the pre-tribulation rapture fantasy was concocted in the 1800s.