It is incredible that Uemura has been giving lectures at foreign universities even in his late age, and a member from our local video game archivist organization was extraordinarily lucky to get a NES signed from him when he was visiting Bratislava.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_ex...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-anc...
>If one’s thirties were a decrepit old age, ancient writers and politicians don’t seem to have got the message. In the early 7th Century BC, the Greek poet Hesiod wrote that a man should marry “when you are not much less than 30, and not much more”. Meanwhile, ancient Rome’s ‘cursus honorum’ – the sequence of political offices that an ambitious young man would undertake – didn’t even allow a young man to stand for his first office, that of quaestor, until the age of 30 (under Emperor Augustus, this was later lowered to 25; Augustus himself died at 75). To be consul, you had to be 43 – eight years older than the US’s minimum age limit of 35 to hold a presidency.
I am confident a random sample of any nation on Earth would consider 78 old.
Ask people how does this person look and they’ll often be surprised, epigenetic age matters more (obesity raises it for example) and when we think of age we don’t think years as much as “how old they look”. There are 50 year olds that show accelerated aging and 80 year olds that still look younger than their age. https://www.odditycentral.com/news/ripped-81-year-old-bodybu...
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g01016/
I will look at a person and decide how old they look.
Many more people are living into their 90’s, and even over 100.
https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/18826/number-of-hundred-y...
Hopefully what we consider to be old changes over time. Dr Fauci is a few days from 81, for example.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
“Old age” is likely one of those things we simply accepted and never made much of an effort to address the issues that make us old.
That includes people who died as children, teens, etc. If you reach 70, your average lifespan is much higher AFAIK.