Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century

Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century – Nature Aging

In the twentieth century, human life expectancy rose dramatically. Based on the past three decades of observed mortality in the eight countries with the longest-lived populations and in Hong Kong and the United States, Olshansky et al. propose that, without medical breakthroughs that slow aging, radical lifespan extension is implausible in this century.