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Predicting Your Own Life Expectancy
yahoo ^ | Friday, July 30, 2010 | Emily Brandon

Posted on 07/31/2010 10:33:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A man currently age 65 can expect to live, on average, until age 83 and the average 65-year-old women will live until 85, according to Social Security Administration data.

About one out of every four 65-year-olds will live past age 90 and one out of 10 will live past age 95, the SSA found.

Life expectancy also changes throughout your lifetime. A 50-year-old man born on July 1, 1960, currently has a life expectancy of 81, according to the SSA's new life expectancy calculator, released last week. Once he makes it to age 67, his live expectancy grows to 84.4 years and if he hits 70, the average life expectancy is 85.3 years.

Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University medical school who studies centenarians, developed a much more detailed life expectancy calculator at livingto100.com. This calculator takes into account everything from your stress level to your sleep habits and gives you the exact age it predicts you will live to.

Other calculators take a more graduated approach to predicting age. Dean Foster, a professor of statistics as the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, developed a calculator that considers information including your occupation and the types of food you consume and gives you a range of ages when you might die. For example, the calculator might tell you there is a 50-50 chance that you will die between ages 72 to 88. But that also means that a quarter of the time you won't make it to 72 and there's a 25 percent chance you will live past age 88.

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To: BenLurkin

97 for me.


21 posted on 07/31/2010 11:22:13 AM PDT by WackySam (To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.)
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To: BenLurkin

A lot will depend on when CWII breaks out.


22 posted on 07/31/2010 11:46:25 AM PDT by cayuga (The only good Socialist is a dead Socialist. We need more good ones.)
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To: OldPossum

That’s right. I turn 59 tomorrow, but I want to hide my age from B.O. and crew. I can only hope that all my medical records (that will be electronically available to all those goons) will have a typo that says THIRTY-NINE instead.


23 posted on 07/31/2010 11:58:08 AM PDT by 1951Boomer
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To: JPG

I am 61 and my doctors have already opened that envelope for me.

We live, we die.... and we try to make the stuff in the middle both fun and meaningful.


24 posted on 07/31/2010 11:59:06 AM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012....)
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To: Viking2002
That's right up there with Sungirl's last post. :)
25 posted on 07/31/2010 12:00:08 PM PDT by gundog (Why is it that useful idiots remain idiots long after they've exhausted their usefulness?)
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To: JPG

yep..


26 posted on 07/31/2010 12:12:10 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: BenLurkin

One of the greatest comedy teams in the world. George and Gracie. I loved them.


27 posted on 07/31/2010 12:27:03 PM PDT by calex59
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To: BenLurkin

One of the greatest comedy teams in the world. George and Gracie. I loved them.


28 posted on 07/31/2010 12:27:16 PM PDT by calex59
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To: BenLurkin
At 63 I am the oldest race ski coach on the mountain. This morning we had to change training pistes so I grabbed my 50 lb backpack and 30 race gates and skied away. I don't know what that means exactly but if I stopped working hard I wonder if I would last another 10 years.

I get to train some days. On a good day and a fast Super-G course I can still hit about 70 MPH. Glad I am not in a car. I'd get a speeding ticket!

BTW, I plan to be still skiing at 90+ and make “my hundred”!

29 posted on 07/31/2010 12:45:14 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: Smokin' Joe
Apparently I have yet to accomplish all the things He has me here to do.

Sounds like an incentive not to work too hard on them.

Not series, I actually agree with you.

30 posted on 07/31/2010 1:08:41 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Nobody reads tag lines)
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To: Graybeard58

When those things are pretty much time sensitive (we’re raising grandchildren) there is every incentive to work hard on them. Especially when I could be replaced if I was slacking with someone who would do a better job...


31 posted on 07/31/2010 2:06:29 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: BenLurkin
Life is fatal. It ends up killing everyone who experiences it.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

32 posted on 07/31/2010 4:16:43 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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