As far as life expectancy, if you do three things to the data: 1. Normalize it to account for war and crime-related deaths, so you only get data that shows imp

As far as life expectancy, if you do three things to the data: 1. Normalize it to account for war and crime-related deaths, so you only get data that shows improvements to medical technology, 2. Look at worldwide life expectancy, not just US, and 3. Remove time people are kept artificially alive in hospitals or in inpatient care without the ability to live on their own... you find the numbers are essentially flat, with very tiny increases that are barely statistically significant. (I quickly looked for the papers I used to calculate this for lifepath.me, but I can't find them right now. I'll post them all to that site when it launches, though.) --- Interesting about airfare prices dropping. I didn't know it was by that much.