When a person reaches 80, 90 or even 100 years old, they are considered to have had a long life. But, according to scientists, humans can live longer than that.
In some countries, reaching age 60 is enough for individuals to start thinking about retirement. On the other hand, there are those who reach 80 and 90 still willing to maintain some activity. A study of thousands of people revealed that life can continue well beyond 100 years.
Conducted by statisticians from the universities of Tilburg and Rotterdam, the study looked at the age at which 75,000 people in the Netherlands died between the ages of 30 and 2017, reported the unilad.
Rather than focusing on average life expectancy, the researchers wanted to determine how long a single individual could live while taking care of himself and if his life was not shortened by illness or other circumstance.
People are capable of living longer than that, with women having a slight advantage over men when it comes to average life expectancy.
Scientists have suggested that a human is unlikely to live beyond 115 years, with the maximum life expectancy for women reaching 115.7 years and men 114.1 years.
According to John Einmahl, one of the three scientists conducting the study, people live longer on average, but average life expectancy has not increased in the last 30 years.
“There is certainly a kind of wall. Of course, the average life expectancy has increased. However, the maximum ceiling itself has not changed”told the agency AFP.
Despite the results of the study, Einmahl admitted that there are cases of people who deviate from the norm and who live longer.
In January, the world lost its oldest person when Sister Andrew passed away, aged 118. After her death, Guinness named Maria Branyas Moreraborn in the United States, as the oldest person in the world, at 115 years old.
Morera currently lives in a nursing home in Catalonia, Spain, but was born in San Francisco on March 4, 1907.
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