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Let's pretend a medical breakthrough occurred, eliminating all "natural" causes of death. No more cancer, no more heart attacks, no more respiratory failures... how would that affect life expectancy?
Answer: it would increase from 78 years — today's average in the U.S. — to a much more impressive 8,938 years. This interactive visualization simulates
human lives in an imaginary world where natural death does not occur. A graph below shows the probability statistics used for the simulation. A link is provided as well, showing the actuarial calculations.