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As someone whose parents are pushing that age, and whose grandparents did years ago, it's not that simple. Someone's personal medical situation and what they do and don't have matters a lot more 70+. Diabetes, cancer, and heart disease in particular; I've lost colleagues to the last two as young as their 40s and 50s.

When the dice of fate come up snake-eyes, whether due to an undiagnosed problem that got missed or wonky genetics, it's your time, and no one is entitled to live into their 90s.

Of course it has nothing to do with environmental factors, life choices, or just bad luck.

I think substance abuse in his younger days could have been a contributing factor.

You think substance abuse in his younger days was a contributing factor to his skin cancer?