Living longer or shorter?

Technically even in Modern history people are living shorter lives than they do now. In 1997 Jeane Calmente died after living 122 years and 164 days. Nobody so far in the last 11 years has even come close, so this might be proof that our lives are becoming shorter and shorter as time progresses. Jeane Calmente’s age is authenic and extensively verified as being correct.

Ok, where’s the proof that these people lived to the ages you claim?

Both of these are also religious figures…funny, there are TONS of saints that have been claimed to have done amazing things (performed miracles, etc) but science has proven those stories fiction.

However you puport that while the miracles they claimed were complete & utter fiction, their lives were still hundreds of years long?

:) I think you really, really need to study more. Or better yet - ask one of your professors to show up here & back up the fictional data your bringing out as proof people are living shorter lives now than they used to.

I’ll trot out a few Stanford PhD’s that I know, and we’ll see which one of them wins the academic pissing contest shall we?

I would like to live shorter… living too long the world would get over populated… plus being old wouldnt be too fun… lol, you get sent to a home, sit around all day… yada yada yada.

But they say that we are living longer than before, because, well we are. in the Middle Ages people were living no more than 30 - 40 years, mostly because of disease and people didnt know how to take care of themselves as well. As technology becomes better, we are becomeing healthier, and thus, living longer.

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What are you talking about??? Somebody who died 11 years ago is HISTORY?

I read in another thread you’re going to an “ivy league school” congrats :) So are a lot of other people…and that doesn’t prove anything.

Modern history people are living shorter

Nope, read what you already wrote, “modernity” as in, the now, would include 11 years ago. What’s changed in the last 11 years? Technology? Not really. Life style? Again, not much.

So your example proves my point: people are living longer. :)

Now, if you’d mentioned somebody from, you know, pre 1950…who had lived & died at over 120+ years or so, I’d be inclined to accept that you may have some evidence, but no real facts. Check the census Bureau or the United Nations data bank on how long people live, or the WHO…instead of throwing out random statements & purporting they are fact.

Saint Kentigern of Britain (patron saint of Glasgow), who died shortly after 600 A.D., lived to 185 years of age. In Europe, Saint Servatius, bishop of Tongeren, was consecrated at the age of 297, and lived for 375 years. He died in 384 A.D.

Fascinating. In western history (eg, Europe) people lived only 40-50 years on average in the middle ages (about 500 years ago). Now they live on average of 77 years, which is a 50% increase in a relatively short time frame, historically speaking.

So depending on what history you believe, things are different :) And I have a very hard time believing people ever lived longer than they do now.

^^^ there’s always an outlier