Why People Don't Live Past 114
kkleiner writes "Average life expectancy has nearly doubled in developed countries over the 20th century. But a puzzling part to the equation has emerged. While humans are in fact living longer lives on average, the oldest age that the oldest people reach seems to be stubbornly and oddly precisely cemented right at 114. What will it take for humans to live beyond this limit?"
"And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
So, what was Jeanne Calment, a satanist?
Also, why doesn't *everyone* live that long? God said they could!
The bible is a fairy tale written to keep idiots in line.
Leave Slashdot now, and don't ever come back. We don't like your kind
here, because we deal in rational thought, not fairy tales.
But not on the day he ate the fruit, like the Lord said he would.
That is not available to christians... it's available to catholics. Big difference.
Only Catholic Papal Blessings(tm) are accepted by the LORD as admonisment for any and all sins.
get one of those and you can go on a killing, robbing and raping spree for the rest of your life, and you can eat lunch on thursdays with Jesus.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.