Questão 30 - PUC-PR Verão Demais Cursos 2022

Which is the appropriate answer to the question in the title below?

 

Can human beings really live to be 150?

 

Average life expectancy is relatively easy to calculate but estimating what the maximum limit of a human lifespan could be is considerably more difficult

 

While most of us can expect to live to around 80, some people defy expectations and live to be over 100. In places such as Okinawa, Japan and Sardinia, Italy, there are many centenarians. The oldest person in history – a French woman named Jeanne Calment – lived to 122. When she was born in 1875, the average life expectancy was roughly 43.

But just how long could a human actually live? It’s a question people have been asking for centuries. While average life expectancy (the number of years a person can expect to live) is relatively easy to calculate, maximum lifespan estimates (the greatest age a human could possibly reach) are much harder to make. Previous studies have placed this limit close to 140 years of age. But a more recent study proposes that the limit to human lifespan is closer to 150.

Source: https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-07-17/can-human-beings-really-live-to-be-150.html . Access: Ago, 2021.