Life has just gotten better and better under Jughead...
1 posted on
10/28/2016 1:38:48 PM PDT by
Smittie
To: Smittie
Click on link for entire article.
2 posted on
10/28/2016 1:42:25 PM PDT by
Smittie
(Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
To: Smittie
The average 65-year-old American man should die a few months short of his 86th birthday, while the average 65-year-old woman gets an additional two years, barely missing age 88. But somehow, this is supposed to be bad news.
Actuaries are bats, btw.
3 posted on
10/28/2016 1:43:40 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Stop that. You're going to set the fire alarm off.)
To: Smittie
Ezekiel Emanuel is pleased.
5 posted on
10/28/2016 1:49:55 PM PDT by
beethovenfan
(I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
To: Smittie
Dying faster?
How long does it take to die? With cancer I guess one can linger for months, years.
Auto accident? Many die pretty much instantly, others in the golden hour.
9 posted on
10/28/2016 1:58:32 PM PDT by
Gamecock
(Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
To: Smittie
Americans increasingly need an accurate sense of how long they’ll be alive. Employer shifts from traditional pensions—which sent a regular check for life—to individual 401(k) accounts means workers must figure out retirement on their own. When you die becomes a crucial variable, helping to determine how much you need to save and how much you can afford to spend.There are apps that will calculate this for you, based on your age, your current health, and your life choices. Running these apps can be an eye-opener.
However, aggregates *always* have outliers. Even if you calculate, at 65, that your health history plus current lifestyle is going to kill you by 72, you could be wrong.
12 posted on
10/28/2016 2:07:29 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Stop that. You're going to set the fire alarm off.)
To: Smittie
I grew up having three nineteenth century born relatives (two of them lived into the 1980s and I nearly had a fourth with my 1881 born great grandfather living until 1968, two and a half years before I was born). And many of my other relatives who lived in nineteenth century times lived well into the following one (one great great grandmother lived from 1849 to 1947). So genes and lifestyle do play a good bit in all of this.
18 posted on
10/28/2016 2:23:26 PM PDT by
OttawaFreeper
("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
To: Smittie
If the whiskey don’t kill me, I’ll live ‘til I die.
To: Smittie
Citation required, everyone who ate pickles in 1900 died
To: Smittie
The question isn’t, “How long will you live?” the question is, “Given the nature of life on Earth at this particular time, how long do you want to live?”
And... keep in mind that all those ‘extra years’ are spent NOT as an eighteen-year-old; they’re spent as a seventy- or eighty-year-old.
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