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Euhm no, kids died which brought the average down. Thats simple mathematics man
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“…we aren’t supposed to be living that long natrually”.
So now I’m old AND artificial? >

You are what you eat, now stop talking, plastic. >

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This is every species..... you think an old ass moose is carefree, happily skipping along until the wolves pull it down? >

Humans have a particularly long old age, though. Most animals go from elderly to dead fairly quickly. >

Most animals have natural predators that like to take advantage of the weaknesses brought on by old age. >

So did humanity until civilization mitigated most of it. >

…which is the point of civilization? >

I thought big anime tiddies was the point >

Even back when hygiene and healthcare weren't up to snuff, living up to 70 was fairly common. What drove the stat down was child mortality. There were SO MANY kids died before even reaching puberty. But if you can reach adulthood, odds were good you can live a long life. >

I don’t think you understand, I said suffering not dying. I’m talking about the health issues so many elderly people have; arthritis, cancer, respiratory diseases, Alzheimers etc etc >

and they had those in 1500 too, because people living to 70 wasn't unusual >

Not OP and I do agree with you, but OPs post doesn't seem to have anything at all to do with now vs the past in terms of people living a long time. >

If think it does. I might be wrong but this post seems to imply that with the technological advances we extended our natural life span and that's why we suffer physically more when older.
However, as stated, people have been living to older ages even before the technological advances. >

1500s is after quite a lot of advances >

But of course not the ones I'm talking about. Recent technological advances are incomparably higher that those that happened up until 1500. >

I mean are they? In what scale? How do you decide that? You gonna tell that to a caveman? >

In the sense that the access to health services and quality of life luxurious is way easier than it was before. Damn my parents had it way harder than me and my grandparents even harder. >

So? Everything you said also counts for that era when you compare it to a caveman. >

is that true? i thought in the olden days people happily lived until 60 or 70 >

The first Neanderthal skeleton found was a man in his old age. Which is why we have the "hunched over" caveman image, the first one literally was because he was old af. >

It’s an exception. Average is average, neanderthals lived very little. Same as first humans.
You are not only using wrong statistic here, you are coming up with things in the fly. 
25% of Neanderthals survived past 40.
Hunched is because people in the 1800s thought that Neanderthals were a link between an ape and a human and supposed to walk like a chimp. You literally made up the old hunched thing. >

Thing is that the average was brought down so much because of infant deaths which were incredibly common >

It’s an exception. Average is average, neanderthals lived very little. Same as first humans.