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Hmm, while it's true infant mortality is the biggest reason for the increase of our lifespans, average lifespans have increased quite a bit even discounting for deaths < 5 years old. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/discounting-infant-mortality-h-vE.jXF9bRQ.rXn1Yp70WuA

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There are people who believe that people died of old age at 30 and use that as the basis of an argument.

An example is people who believe in life extension to hundreds of years because human life has already "increased so much"

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