Posted on 10/28/2016 1:38:48 PM PDT by Smittie
Death awaits all of us, but how patiently? To unlock the mystery of when were going to die, start with an actuary.
Members of this 200-year-old profession who study risk and uncertainty pore over the data of death to estimate length of life. Putting aside the spiritual, thats crucial information for insurance companies and pension plans, and its also helpful for planning retirement, since we need our money to last as long we do.
The latest, best guesses for U.S. lifespans come from a study (PDF) released this month by the Society of Actuaries: 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.
This new data turns out to be a disappointment. Over the past several years, the health of Americans has deterioratedparticularly that of middle-aged non-Hispanic whites. Among the culprits are drug overdoses, suicide, alcohol poisoning, and liver disease, according to a Princeton University study issued in December.
I just dont want to be one of them.
I don't either, that would just mean a longer wait for my real home in heaven...I can't imagine how much farther this world can descend into insanity in another 50 years but I don't want to find out. I don't want to die anytime soon, but 80 years is long enough.
You and your family are anomalies. These are averages we are talking about here.
Unless they have annuities instead of life insurance policies.
I lived with my great grand aunt, my grandmother and grand father, and a cast from the 1880s and 1890s.
I love the fact that the people I loved we affected and touch by people in the early 19th century and my influence carries that effect through to the 21rst century through my kids.
Yep.
Communists revel in killing off the masses.
Yes, there’s that.
Citation required, everyone who ate pickles in 1900 died
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.
That’s very true. I just hope to live as long as Mrs. Smittie is around, then I’ll be ready to go home...
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