Originally Posted by Hank Schrader:
“Don't need to be to know men cannot live to 145. You have a rather unpleasant attitude.”
How do you know? You don't, is the answer.
If you take another species, a cat for example. The average lifespan for a cat is 15 to 17 years -
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The record age for a cat is 38 -
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“Creme Puff (cat) Creme Puff (August 3, 1967 – August 6, 2005) was an American cat who died aged 38 years and 3 days (or 168 cat years). She was the oldest cat ever recorded, according to the 2010 edition of Guinness World Records. Creme Puff lived with her owner, Jake Perry, in Austin, Texas.”
Which is more than twice the average, and 168 by human standards.
If that can happen with one animal species, it follows that it can happen with another.
Admittedly, such instances will be exceedingly rare, but with a world population of however many billion it is, you simply cannot rule out the possibility of a given individual living to an exceptional age.