Isn't that funny?
I have often seen the longevity of modern man cited as an example of this being the best time to be alive, as if unnaturally old age is something to aspire to.
Ask anyone over 80 if they enjoy being that age, no matter how (comparatively) healthy they are; the answers will be uniformly negative.
I would greatly prefer to live in a world were the average life expectancy was 50 years.