For some reason, it is generally accepted that the duration of a human life of 80 years and not much more is a normal period. Maybe this is a naive delusion?
At the time of Pushkin, a woman at the age of 40 was considered an ancient old woman. And that was also the norm. Strange, isn't it?
And the Bible says that a person lived 700-800 years. Fantastic. Maybe these are biblical tales?
They also say that the first decree of Peter the Great was the decree for the extermination of three hundred year old elders. True or not, there are such rumors, and there is no smoke without fire. There is every reason to believe that it is true. I don't know about the Decree itself, but the fact that people could live up to that age is quite real.
Only old people themselves can judge premature old age. Only they know and have felt for themselves all the injustice of age restrictions.
No, not that they are not hired and considered inferior workers. This is all quite fair - in old age, the body will not be able to provide high performance and it will not compete with a young body.
Premature old age is felt by the fact that the experience and knowledge gained over the age of 70 could be more useful than ever if the body could provide high performance. And then, as luck would have it, senile weakness, dementia and other delights of age-related degradation of a person, as a personality, come. And it turns out that all the accumulated experience, skills and knowledge in the very juice are sent to the landfill. Where is the logic of the meaning of all this accumulation, suffering, energy and time spent on learning, recognition of mistakes, and so on?
And if, you put up with the version of the Christian teaching that a person is given only one life, then it becomes completely depressing.
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Reflecting on this topic, for some reason it is hard to believe that human nature has taken the path of self-destruction. Not many people think about a very interesting property called natural selection.
Fertility is most functional at a young age.
The older a woman is, the more difficult it is for her, without clinical pathologies, to give birth to a child. It would seem that it would be more logical for descendants to inherit the genes of those people who have proven their viability. And this evidence does not come to light at a young age, when all the tests are still ahead. On the contrary, many organisms are unable to overcome the path of life and die quickly. Why inherit such genes? It makes more sense to inherit persistent ones that have proven this.
But no, young organisms are more adapted to the reproduction of offspring. However, a nuance was noticed. If in the old days children were born at 15 - 18 years old and this was the norm, with an average life expectancy of 40 - 50 years, now children are born mainly after 25 and older. And some are doing it safely even at 40. Which corresponds to an average life expectancy of 70 - 80 years
And if we imagine that the duration of a human life is not 80 years, but, well, at least 200-300 years, then the age of productive childbearing would rise to about 100 years.
Imagining the wisdom and abilities of an active person at the age of 150 is the same as imagining teleportation as an everyday reality.
There is a suspicion that the duration of human life is deliberately cut. Someone is not at all profitable to have smart and wise people on the planet.