Article has been published by Mark Juliano, President of Vinomis Laboratories in GoArticles online.

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“When asked, “would you want to live to 150, 200 or 500 years old?” most people answer, “NO!” Upon additional probing, generally one of two explanations arises.

One, we weren’t meant to live twice as long (or forever). Frankly, I don’t really believe this answer. In Classical Greece and Rome, the average life expectancy was about 25 years old. In the early 1900s, it was 35 – 40 worldwide. Since the year 1900, human lifespan has increased about 3 months each year. So over the 100-year century, average lifespan increased 300 months, or 25 years.

Not surprisingly, I don’t find many people volunteering to take 25 years off of their own lives. In fact, just the opposite is true. People will do almost anything to live longer. Pharmaceutical companies, doctors, patients and their families have demonstrated that if a cancer drug can increase the lifespan of a terminally ill person by only 6 – 12 months, the drug will sell over $1 Billion per year.

Given the acceleration of medical and nutritional advancements, it is certainly reasonable to assume that humans will have an average lifespan well over 100 years within this century, and lifespan could double in the subsequent century.

The second explanation I hear is more illuminating. People say, “I wouldn’t want to prolong my life if it meant living like many old people I know.” In other words, they’d only choose to live that much longer if they could live a healthy life.”

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