Methuselah Syndrome: Difference between revisions

The tendency for ancient and fantasy settings to show humans having very long lifespans despite the lack of any established medical science. People will routinely live to a century or better while remaining lucid and active. Might or might not be explained as [[AWizards WizardLive Did ItLonger]] in the case of magical characters. Because in fiction age automatically equals wisdom rather than, say, the gradual death of brain cells, he frequently is an [[Old Master]] or a [[Mentors|mentor]]. (Of course, research on senility-due-to-age has been skewed by mental illnesses like Alzheimers; people without those diseases can do very well, but those diseases are all too common.)