ocr: Who Needs Immortality?, by Dr Roney 0108 Immortality - Impossible or Only Impractical? Most people have an idea that the human lifespan is gradually increasing, Iti is a COMMON misconception and the reasoning behind it goes like this: 100 years, or 50 ago, the average age that people lived to was about 45 and now it's 75, - ergo in another 100 years Most people will live to be 105, This is,fortunately, wrong, The clue to. the mistake is in the word average: in the 19th century there were still plenty of octogenarians (and older), but because, 50 Many More people died before they were twenty, t ...
