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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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1 posted on 07/31/2010 10:33:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
If a sealed envelope on the table in front of you contained your age at death, would you open it and take a peek?
2 posted on 07/31/2010 10:39:18 AM PDT by JPG (Journolist diva, Sarah Spitz? No, she swallowed the whole Mongrel agenda.)
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To: JPG

Heck — I’d read it, scan it and email it to my friends and relatives.


3 posted on 07/31/2010 10:40:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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To: BenLurkin
Longevity calculator

Well, if all goes well, I could live for another 41 to 45 years. Of course, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.

4 posted on 07/31/2010 10:40:48 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: BenLurkin

My paternal grandparents all lived into their mid 90’s. They were reasonably healthy and had sound minds. My dad is 77 and in super good condition.


5 posted on 07/31/2010 10:41:09 AM PDT by umgud (Obama is a failed experiment.)
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To: JPG
'If a sealed envelope on the table in front of you contained your age at death, would you open it and take a peek?'

Hell, no, it's one of the great mysteries of human existence. I might live to be a hundred; then again, I might just drop dead typing here on my key boa

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*THUMP*

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

6 posted on 07/31/2010 10:44:22 AM PDT by Viking2002
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To: BenLurkin

and in walks ZeroCare to make some changes.


7 posted on 07/31/2010 10:45:16 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Viking2002

R.I.P. :)


8 posted on 07/31/2010 10:46:29 AM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: JPG

Why? When God wants I will leave this existence. Apparently I have yet to accomplish all the things He has me here to do.


9 posted on 07/31/2010 10:46:35 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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'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.'

Shit. I gotta get moving on porch-painting project I've been putting off. I think my dogs are gonna outlive me.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

10 posted on 07/31/2010 10:47:02 AM PDT by Viking2002
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To: BenLurkin

I’m due to expire around 74 (45 now). If I quit smoking I will gain 3 years. If I quit drinking, I will gain 6 months. My Dad is 73 and very healthy. His Dad died at 84. Glad I was born into a family with relatively good genes.


11 posted on 07/31/2010 10:55:05 AM PDT by OCC
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To: umgud

My grandma took rotten care of herself and lived to be 79. My grandpa lived to almost 91.


12 posted on 07/31/2010 10:55:28 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: BenLurkin

What it boils down to is that the amount of money you have dictates how long you’ll live, and I have all the money I’ll ever need - as long as I die by 4 o’clock this afternoon.


13 posted on 07/31/2010 10:56:46 AM PDT by stormer
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To: Viking2002

THUMP? Wait a minute, if you were dying, you wouldn’t write...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiT_5cr3tYI


14 posted on 07/31/2010 10:59:33 AM PDT by mhx
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To: JPG

Yes - then I would adjust my life insurance accordingly.


15 posted on 07/31/2010 11:01:05 AM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: BenLurkin

Of course, I suppose this is not counting what Obamacae will do to the aged. Start substracting the longevity estimates.


16 posted on 07/31/2010 11:02:08 AM PDT by OldPossum
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To: BenLurkin
I input a birthday of 12/14/1891 and got this:

The following table lists the average number of additional years a female born on December 14, 1891, can expect to live when she reaches a specific age.

At Age 118 and 7 months
Additional Life Expectancy 0.5
Estimated Total Years 119.1

I expected it to say, "Additional Life Expectancy -29 years"

17 posted on 07/31/2010 11:03:20 AM PDT by giotto
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To: mhx

Do you know, there is an Aramaic word in common english usage?

“Bat” - as in, “Bat Mitzvah”

It means “Girl”, in Aramaic.

How odd.


18 posted on 07/31/2010 11:09:24 AM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: BenLurkin

I predict I will live until something happens and I die.


19 posted on 07/31/2010 11:11:02 AM PDT by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: linn37

Exactly.

Burns; “What did he die of?

Gracie: “Oh, I don’t remember. It was nothing serious.”


20 posted on 07/31/2010 11:12:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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