makyo@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the oldest age anyone in your family has lived to?English
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5 days agoMy gramps died at 88 but he was a lifelong smoker and alcoholic and had emphysema for the last decades of his life so I believe that without addiction he’d probably have lived to 100.
Yeah I was thinking about this the other day after watching some Twilight Zone or something. It’s interesting that a lot of our fantasy/sci-fi is about how pathetic humanity might be compared to alien beings, especially since in reality we actualy play the role of the highly superior beings.