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Message: [QUOTE="dasher, post: 5191608, member: 6061"] Life expectancy hasn't gone up near as much as people think. The difference, and this is technical, is that people aren't dying sooner. And that isn't a joke. The number of people who died before they were 5 100 years ago, was a very large number. If you lived past 5, you died about the same time as people die today. Not quite as good, but much closer than you think. And not for nothing but a great deal of money those PE firms use to develop those drugs we love, were funded by the feds. Not all. But a lot. And that is a great partnership. [/QUOTE]