Its all relative R.....go to the average or even above average old folks home and ask what they think of longevity.

Infant mortality was the problem a couple of hundred years ago, if one survived infancy you stood a very good chance of attaining your three score and ten.
In our local churchyard it amazes me how many people in the 17 and 1800's lived to over ninety years......but by then the industrial revolution was just beginning to bite!