Matter: How Long Can We Live? The Limit Hasn’t Been Reached, Study Finds(nytimes.com)
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Matter: How Long Can We Live? The Limit Hasn’t Been Reached, Study Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/science/human-age-limit.html
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According to the Bible, well over 900 years.
Well if you’re gonna go there, the Cakkavatti Sutta, DN 26, of the Theravada tradition in Buddhism, says the upper limit is 80,000 years.
Maybe the real question is where on the scale the extension to life happens? If we keep reaching adulthood, and then elderly, more inhibited lifestyles at the same ages, just prolonging the elderly state via good medical practices, that's one thing. But if we could slow aging in general to extend younger and middle-aged sections of life, that'd be another thing altogether.