February 24 2017, 12:01am,The Times

Cormac Lucey

More and more of us will live beyond 90. This may be good news, but it raises huge practical and ethical problems

Living to 90 may become the new normal, a study of longevity trends in 35 industrialised countries suggested this week. The study, by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, was published on Wednesday in The Lancet, a medical journal. The report showed that people in all countries can expect to be living longer. Irish men born in 2030 are expected to live to an average 84 years old, putting them in eighth place out of 35 countries. Irish women born that year will live to about 87 years, which places them 14th.

Attending the 35th anniversary reunion of my BComm class at University College Dublin recently, I listened intently to the insightful lecture given by old class favourite Dr

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