Dying Healthy: Public Health Priorities for Fixed Population Life Expectancies

Recent evidence suggests that the human lifespan has an unalterable biological limit of approximately 115 years and that virtually all humans will die before age 90 years. The authors suggest that it is time to shift our research priorities and resources toward identifying ways to improve quality of life throughout the lifespan and to delay illness to the shortest period possible near the end of life.

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