Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Analogously to Tax Freedom Day, could one also calculate a "Death Freedom Day"?
It would be based on the relative speed of medical research; currently, I believe that's about 10% — our remaining life expectancy is pushed back by about a month for every year we live, so that net aging is 11 months of the year.
The twelfth month is free...
In the US, Death Freedom Day would be round about Thanksgiving.
(Actuarial escape velocity is achieved when Death Freedom Day falls before the 1st of January. That would entail an order of magnitude improvement of medical research output; so close yet so far away.)
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