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If you use your family longevity to plan your retirement savings spend-down you will live to be 100.
If you dig a bit, you'll find that just the opposite happened with the Spanish flu...those with the strongest immune system were the ones that died!!
Scientists Uncover Why Spanish Flu So Deadly
The Spanish Flu was more deadly to people in their middle years, as opposed to children and elderly, further supporting the fact that those with robust immune systems died.
The longevity inheritance question is interesting in a statistical sense.
But what about real life where I'm only interested in a sample size of one, i.e. me?
A few interesting quotes from the book "Supercentenarians', co-authored by James Vaupel. PDF version here -
MPIDR - Supercentenarians
Half of supercentenarians have no children - isn't that a very strong indicator as well then?
It's a bit shocking to me too, since I thought having children and family gives you a better chance of having a strong social network later in life, which in turn should increase longevity and health?
Evolutionary theory predicts that there should be a tradeoff be-
tween survival and reproduction, so this finding, which needs to be carefully scrutinized and verified may be a result of genes that reduce mortality at the expense of fertility.