longevity escape velocity

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noun

a hypothetical situation in which advances in medical science mean that a person's remaining life expectancy increases at a rate which is faster than the passage of time.

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longevity escape velocity

This is Bridge Two, which he believes will bring us to longevity escape velocity within about fifteen years.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017

I call it longevity escape velocity -- where we have a sufficiently comprehensive panel of therapies to enable us to push back the ill health of old age faster than time is passing.

From Reuters ● Jul. 4, 2011

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