{"id":86763,"date":"2019-01-18T06:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/human-lifespan-has-a-natural-limit-and-weve-already-reached-it"},"modified":"2019-01-18T06:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T14:22:21","slug":"human-lifespan-has-a-natural-limit-and-weve-already-reached-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/human-lifespan-has-a-natural-limit-and-weve-already-reached-it","title":{"rendered":"Human lifespan has a natural limit \u2013 and we\u2019ve already reached it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-lifespan-has-a-natural-limit-and-weve-already-reached-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biological life extension may hit limits. \u201cClearly, there are biological reasons for each species\u2019 average lifespan, so why would anyone think that people could live for much longer than we do now?\u201d Perhaps new breakthroughs will nudge lifespans upwards, but maybe these scientists are correct. This is why I still work on artificial death (non biological uploading to MVT awareness engines). Even if average ages go up many folks will still become terminally ill, and apart from MVT artificial death (second best to life) they will only have expensive cryogenics or doubtful religious faith as alternatives.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The average age of people over 110 has not increased for nearly 50 years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/human-lifespan-limit-125-longevity-worlds-oldest-person-nature-study-a7346611.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/human-lifespan-li...46611.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biological life extension may hit limits. \u201cClearly, there are biological reasons for each species\u2019 average lifespan, so why would anyone think that people could live for much longer than we do now?\u201d Perhaps new breakthroughs will nudge lifespans upwards, but maybe these scientists are correct. This is why I still work on artificial death (non [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}