In 2014, then-57-year-old bioethicist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel wrote an infamous essay titled, Why I Hope to Die at 75 for The Atlantic. His argument boiled down to this: it's not worth living as long as humanly possible if those efforts yield extra decades defined by disease and poor health, which data suggest is the fate awaiting many people in the U.S.
It's great to live to 100, says Tim Peterson, CEO of Healthspan Technologies, a startup focused on healthy agingâbut less so if you live the last 30 years in poor health.
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