The ethics and economics of human longevity | Raiany Romanni-Klein | TEDxBoston

So around the turn of the 20th century, something extraordinary and vastly under reportported happened. Our way of dying as a species changed. Imagine an alien landed on Earth in the year 1900 and she decided to survey the anatomy of human death.How we die and by what. She would learn that for thousands of years, our deaths consisted mostly of fast incidents. Usually things coming at us quickly and from the outside.Tigers that snuck up on us in the blink of an eye. Foreign particles that enter the lungs at ...