Organ harvesting
The talk swirling around organ transplants and extreme longevity imagines a world where power and money chase extra decades by swapping out worn parts, but biology still sets hard limits: repeated transplants demand lifelong immunosuppression that raises infection and cancer risks, and no new heart or kidney fixes the brain changes behind dementia.
Yes, prominent leaders now in their 70s (or early 40s) fuel speculation that a new elite lifespan is in reach, and feel-good slogans in China about “seventy being like a child” get folded into that story, alongside breathless claims that lifespans of 150 might be possible this century. Yet the human record holders—Jeanne Calment at 122, Ethel Caterham at 116, and others past 110—are still outliers, not a new normal. Meanwhile, the data from places like England and Wales remain stubborn: dementia and Alzheimer’s lead death causes, followed by heart disease, strokes, lung disease, cancers, with infections like influenza and pneumonia jumping during bad seasons.
Even if xenotransplants, gene editing, and lab-grown tissues advance, they won’t erase the multifactorial wear of aging—metabolic drift, immune decline, neurodegeneration—any time soon. The more sober read is that we’ll see more people reaching their 90s in decent health, not rulers resetting the clock at will.
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