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Ancient Rome gives you something like a life expectancy of 50 years if you survived being a baby.

But I also think ancient Romans would not lay in a tanning booth, or be indoors for 10 months and then take a 7 day trip to Mexico and burn to a crisp on the beach.

Today, the average age of Melanoma diagnosis is 63, so they very well may have still died by large before typical onset.

https://www.curemelanoma.org/about-melanoma/melanoma-statist...

Also, 50 is pretty young. Skin cancer would probably not get most people before they were 50, even with a lot of sun exposure. I bet some did die of skin cancer younger than 50, too.

MRNA treatments should be able to handle this soonish.

This doesn't seem connected to the question of how people historically have avoided dying of skin cancer?

People lived up to reasonable ages if they reached adolescence.

The idea that everybody died young is a myth.

Not on average, the odds of living to be 70 where quite low in primitive societies compared to today. That said sure some people live to be 90+.

This. Thanks.