Also, life expectancy is a lagging indicator. As another poster pointed out, people born between 1900 and 1910 only lived an average of about 47 years. But we didn't know that until the 1950s and 1960s.
We are now seeing huge numbers of people in their 70s who are relatively healthy. These people were born in the 1930s - at at time when most folks thought they'd be lucky to make it to age 50.
It would stand to reason that people born in the 1950s can probably expect to make it to their 90s. As for people being born now, huge numbers of them will likely make to to by 100 or older - of course, we won't know for sure until the 2100s.
Lastly, I can't believe I'm older than Archie Bunker. Was he really 47 years old at the time of the show? He looked like he was 65.
The mortality rate was 47 years, but that was because of the high infant and child mortality rates. If you made it to 20, you had a good chance of making it to seventy. People didn’t automatically start keeling over when they reached their mid-forties.
My dad worked until he was 83. He didn’t “have to” he simply liked what he did. Why quit doing something you like? I will be 62 this coming Saturday and have no intentions of walking out the door any time soon. The kids are grown, the house is about paid for and once that happens the paychecks are all mine (ours) to do with as we see fit.
It would stand to reason that people born in the 1950s can probably expect to make it to their 90s. As for people being born now, huge numbers of them will likely make to to by 100 or older - of course, we won’t know for sure until the 2100s.
No way. People born in the ‘50s living to their ‘90s? Thats a 20 year jump in lifespan over what it currently is now. And a huge number making it to their 100s? Think of what we eat now. Food filled with toxins, chemicals, antibiotics, and God knows what else. And it’s getting harder and harder to find food that isn’t loaded with that crap. I expect lifespan will dramatically decrease,,,not increase.