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I have read that a child being born today stands a good chance of living to be 200 years old. Advances in medicine and geriatrics have been accelerating steadily and in another two or three decades will reach levels unheard-of today. A 200 year life expectancy will make them effectively immortal, since the state of medicine and the life sciences in 200 years will be beyond our imagination. 200 years ago, in 1815, medicine was little better than medieval. So we'd better do a far better job of raising this generation than the last few, because they're going to be around for a long, long time.
Provided they don't get hit by a bus.
I hope you're right, for their sake. But, to paraphrase Yogi, you gotta be wary of predictions, especially about the future. So long as we are made of perishable stuff, we shall perish. Or so I predict.