How long is a human being meant to live?

Question

Before we extended it with cures, surgery, electricity etc ... Dont say were all meant to like to 100 thats silly, besides who wants to be in an old folks home till you die.

Answer 1

pre-modern medicine? 30-50 years that seems like the natural course of human life. modern medicine extended that to the current 70+ years that we have today.

Answer 2

Most people don't like getting older, but the alternative is worse!

My great grand father lived to be 120 and his wife 115. I am 73 and in good health... walk at least a mile, do 100 sit-ups and push-ups daily. No one can know how long any life will last, given accidents and illness, but that is why man invented Gods ... he doesn't want to die. We are immortal through our great grand kids. Computers may come that will allow us to move our essence or mind to survive there. IBM in 1975 tried to make a computer that could be taught like a child... they failed. Kipling had the thought below ... may the force be with you.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

Answer 3

I was always told 3 score years and 10 - giving you 70. I remember reading that senility was not a natural part of life, but degeneration caused by many years of bad quality living. Modern life is certainly not geared towards a healthy biological unit - junk for the body, junk for the mind. Those of a consistently long lifespan are people with simple and natural lifestyles and dietary habits.

Answer 4

100

Answer 5

The average life of a wild creature, measured in number of heart beats, is approximately constant across all creatures. No kidding. Creatures in captivity live longer, as a rule of thumb I think it's about twice as long. In this analysis humans come under captive animals, as our medication and living conditions make us live for twice as many heartbeats as wild animals do.

So by doing some quick maths, and dividing the average dying age of people in the sanitised Western world you'll find that people are supposed to live to about 35-40 years old. This is why biologically speaking we are prepared for reproduction at 15ish, and start to go out of productivity past 35.

Answer 6

Don't suppose there is a set answer, but I read somewhere that the hearts only has so many beats in it and if we don't die of something else we would die of heart failure when its beat it's allotted amount. If you don't want to end up in an old folks home, eat lots of fatty food and smoke yourself silly.

Answer 7

The maximum lifespan for a human being, based on animal studies regarding size, heart rate etc is 120 years.

Answer 8

There is no set age or anything due to there being sooo many factors that can alter it. I've had family members die in their 50s & 60s due to cancer or an anyeurism in the brain but then again I also had a great-grandmother who was in wonderful health that died 2 weeks before she turned 102 & it was simply just due to old age.

Answer 9

It depends on famnily genetics, one particular healthy family can all live until they are in their 90's, another equally healthy family may have a genteic trait - seeing them off in their 70's

these days it seems to be anything from late 50's (heart disease + other hereditary traits)

to early 70's (old age)

Answer 10

I think the perfect age to die is 75
because you would have retired t by then, and enjoyed a good years of retirement and beginning to wear and tear.

If you live any longer then you are sure to suffer