Research Suggests There May Be A Limit To Human Life Span.

points out that “starting in the late 19th century, average life expectancy started to rise because fewer children were dying.” Meanwhile, “in recent decades, adults have also enjoyed better health.” On its website, NBC News (10/5, Fox) reports that the researchers wrote, “We show that improvements in survival with age tend to decline after age 100, and that the age at death of the world’s oldest person has not increased since the 1990s.” They added, “Our results strongly suggest that the maximum lifespan of humans is fixed and subject to natural constraints.” CBS News (10/5, Welch) reports on its website that although senior author Jan Vijg, PhD, “expects medical advancements to continue to keep more people healthier for a longer amount of time – thus increasing average life expectancy – he believes those advancements will not increase the maximum age of the longest-lived people.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/science/maximum-life-span-study.html