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No, since late life mortality deceleration and mortality plateaus are observed in numerous organisms - including Drosophila melanogaster - e.g. see the details in Why organisms show late-life mortality plateaus: a null model for comparing patterns of mortality.
It's the humans that matter for us...
For you maybe. Those interested in biological senescence need a general theory that accounts for late life mortality deceleration. Attributing it to "data collection problems" fails to capture the phenomenon.