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New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

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215 points XzetaU8 | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 16:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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bigmattystyles ◴[30 Aug 25 17:50 UTC] No.45076621[source]▶
I wonder if as a species we can ever get more comfortable with death. We’re built not to be I realize, and we should never be for those that are young but I feel like we should be ok with living 80ish or more years and then clocking out. That being said, I’m not cool with the idea of dying when good, but when I’m in a major depressive episode, the idea of immortality is terrifying.
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1. georgemcbay ◴[31 Aug 25 06:51 UTC] No.45080956[source]▶
In my experience (with both my age peers and people a generation older) as a 52 year old most people who aren't sociopathic narcissists just naturally get more comfortable with the idea of their own death with age.

Not like they long for it or whatever, but anxiety about it goes down, acceptance of it goes up.