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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Well, you could say that medical intervention, including taking medicine is causing something good to happen. We are definitely living longer and more of us are living longer than we did a hundred years ago. I respectively submit that you may be proceeding from an illogical premise.
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Yes, people are living longer but in too many cases they are living longer because they are propped up by medical proceedures, drugs, feeding tubes, diapers and nursing home assistance. In too many cases the quality of their extended life is poor and nothing to brag about.
A hundred years ago there was a high infant mortality rate and that brought down the average life expectancy. My grandfather was born around 1875 and lived to age 97. I also had an ancestor who lived to 106 and he was born in 1850.
I had a great aunt who lived to 100.