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It is true though, that the longer you live, the longer your life expectancy.
by whiddershins 6y ago
It is true though, that the longer you live, the longer your life expectancy.
- K0SM0S 6y agoIndeed and yet, paradoxically, living longer is quite literally what's killing you¹... 1: Cells have two ultimate fates: they either fail to resist cancer or, if they succeed, eventually die of doing it, sort of wear-and-tear, i.e. "ageing" as we call it. Lookup telomeres and cancer. Therein lies the recent hype/hope of increasing human life expectancy by a lot, perhaps orders of magnitude.