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I think that the lifespan that humans can live to if they wish, given current medical and scientific knowledge, is too low.
I agree.
The model I use to derive that involves looking at lots of dying people who don't want to die. If we had lots of people lying around saying "I wish I could die; why can't I die?" that same model would conclude the lifespan is too long.
I didn't say that lifespan is too low, I said that the lifespan that you can choose if you wish is too low. The existence of people who want to die is irrelevant to this.
I think Sister Y would disagree with the implication that there are few such people.
We actually do have people around who want to die. At the same time we still want to increase the lifespan that people can achieve if they want to do so.
I think the key word in the part of dspeyer's comment that you quoted is "lots".