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Sounds like analyzing why so many people these days take 10 types of medications daily just to survive. Oh, wait, they're 70 year old... ah, OK.

A hundred or so years ago the life expectancy in the west was 40 or something. These days we watch our 80 year-old grandparents work part-time, drive, go on vacation 3 times a year and generally have a good time. Is it really strange then that the urge to "hit the milestones" has lessened.



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