Do Humans Live Too Long?

“Public health fundamentally changed what it means to be human,” S. Jay Olashansky argues in a short video explaining the jump in human life expectancy in the mid-19th Century. For more than 200,000 years, most humans died by 30 and infant mortality was endemic. But over the last two centuries human life expectancy has more than doubled. In the last century the average American life expectancy rose from 47 to 78, largely attributable to improved understanding of personal hygiene, effective treatments for childhood diseases, and shifts toward safer working spaces.
Source: Technology