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Re:"How's your PhD going?" A study on mental health by HDMI_Cable on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:37PM (#36592810)
One way to look at it is that with increasing life expectanties, 70 will be the new 60 (or even 50). The probability that you'll see your kids have kids is going to get higher and higher. Also, it may be better that you had kids later because they'll grow up in a more financially comfortable situation with more aged and experienced parents.

Think of age as a fine wine, not milk :)

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Re:"How's your PhD going?" A study on mental health by TotalCrackpot on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:53PM (#36592989)
If something drastically changes with climate change then maybe you are right, if not then life expectancy will fall.
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Re:"How's your PhD going?" A study on mental health by Brybry on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:15PM (#36593205)
In the US, life expectancy isn't really increasing.

It's been fairly flat for the last 10 years or so. [1][2]

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?location...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Li...

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Re:"How's your PhD going?" A study on mental health by whatever1 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:53PM (#36593545)
Unless we do something to reverse dna damage I don’t think that median quality life expectancy can be extended.

The variance in quality of life after your 60s is crazy high. There are many super healthy 60yo, there are also 60yo who are completely devastated from health problems.

And sure maybe you can drag it on for another 5-10 years if you have let’s say Alzheimer’s, but what is the point ?

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Re:"How's your PhD going?" A study on mental health by strken on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @11:28PM (#36595219)
A lot of longevity interventions (e.g. dietary antioxidants, sunscreen, reducing alcochol consumption) do slow DNA damage.

Getting people to take preventative measures is tough, but it's probably easier than reversing damage after it's done.

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