RIP Jeralean Talley. She was just 6 years short of the all time record, currently being held by Jeanne Calment of France (18751997), who died at the age of 122. The medical sector is getting more and more innovative now, and new drugs are being found. So in the future, it won't be unusual for people to live up to 120 years.
Yes but will the medical community be able to improve the quality of life at that age? Living that long would be great! Spending 30+ years as very elderly with limited mobility or freedom would be a challenge. (Not awful, just a challenge).
How long could you, would you want to, live elderly?
I agree, the quality of life is important indeed. My aunts got so frustrated with not being able to do the simplest of things like picking up the TV remote and changing the channel themselves, because they weren't sick. They were just weak. They had lived their lives fully, and their quality of life had fallen to such a level that they wished they would leave for their heavenly abode as soon as they could.