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Doesn't Clark know, from what he's seen in the musuem and the family records, that he and Lois don't die in their fifties? If so, he'll know that, whatever happens, it isn't fatal to either of them.
I figure, first, that he hasn't had time to read everything in the museum (departure room, anyone?). And second, even if he had read that he died at the age of 97, I can see him trying *not* to remember that, and therefore when Silas starts fumbling around he doesn't immediately realize it can't be fatal. After all, he's only human wink

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K