We are not living longer (not that much) --- I like the clear mention of an"average lifespan" as these statistics tends to be missunderstood like this means humans live longer now. The truth is we are diying less. Lifespan is an average so thanks to reductiong of preventable deaths (vaccines, diets, new treatments, etc) people can survive to illnes and conditions that a few decades before were a death sentence and therefore the average is rising but the techology for actually increasing human lifespan is just in development

Source author: Carlos Arturo Garcia Bonilla carlos.garcia@cancilleria.gov.co