Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove

> The decline in the United States is driven by increasing numbers of deaths because of conditions such as diabetes and heart disease in people aged roughly 40 to 60.

People are asking if we should be surprised by the headline but are missing this. As suggested in the article by the researchers, there is something dragging down the average since the 2010s. Not even hitting the general expectation of ~75 years. We don’t have solid answers yet, only theories.

So yes, generally while going up against the process of aging is going to create barriers (eg can we get to 130 years old), we are also failing to raise the baseline which is the bigger issue that people might not grasp when it comes to “life expectancy rates”.

Epicureans. No point to live long which means being old for a long period of time. Better to be happy when you are young.

Eating yourself to a point where it hurts your knees to walk, or you get winded going up a flight of stairs, is not the kind of hedonism Epicurus had in mind.