Do we really live longer than our ancestors?
<i>Our maximum lifespan may not have changed much, if at all. But that’s not to delegitimise the extraordinary advances of the last few decades which have helped so many more people reach that maximum lifespan, and live healthier lives overall.</i><p>The benefits of some of those advances are questionable at best. Those who have visited a nursing home may know what I&#x27;m talking about.<p>Spending the last decade of your life commuting to doctor&#x27;s offices (or bedridden) ain&#x27;t no picnic, nor is rotting away in a forgotten corner of a human warehouse.<p>The quality of life position has always intrigued me for this reason. Sometimes what technology giveth with one hand, society taketh away with the other.