From: R. Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 16:35:17 MDT
what about the supposed haflik limit?
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From: <CurtAdams@aol.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Lifespan
>
> In a message dated 5/10/02 14:28:43, mail@HarveyNewstrom.com writes:
>
> >People who live to the end of their natural lives are
> >not living longer. However, they are not decreasing either, so the
> >average lifespan still goes up. This group is always affected by old
> >age. They avoid other causes of death and always reach old age at the
> >end of their life.
>
> In every age group, even those well over a hundred, we continue to see
> larger and larger proportions of people in those brackets - including
brackets
> that remained unoccupied until recently. And, nobody dies of old age.
> Even at 110+, they die of heart attacks, strokes, pneumonia, etc. Aging
> just increases your risk from almost any source of mortality.
>
>
>
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