[cll]

So, he died close to the end of the life expectancy and he died of something.

[Beave Meister]

72 is not that old.....just ask any 72 year olds.

[Uncle Miltie]

Current Life Expectancy is 75.9 years, according to the SSA.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4c6.html

He lost 4, in an average sense.

He could also have been hit by a bus prematurely.

[dangerdoc]

If you make it to 72, your actuarial life expectancy is somewhere in the mid 80’s.

Besides that COPD is a horrible way to go, in some ways as bad as going with cancer.