When I trip slightly, step on something and hurt my toe, that sort of thing, it makes me think that even if I somehow wasn't to age or get a fatal illness, that

When I trip slightly, step on something and hurt my toe, that sort of thing, it makes me think that even if I somehow wasn't to age or get a fatal illness, that given long enough, it's statistically certain I will fall down the stairs and die or something like that. Probability produces mortality completely independent of human physiology. If your risk of death flattens out, but is not zero, then your expected lifespan is very finite. I think some people have claimed that exceptionally long lived people do end up with a constant (albeit high) risk of death per year rather than an increasing one. It's a little bit sad to think that nothing remotely human could possibly see what the world will be like in a million years, let alone a billion. We could all be 20 years old permanently, and we'd still only live a few thousand years.