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Old 07-17-2019, 01:16 PM   #61
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Most of the longevity calculators listed in this thread, give you a 1 year "bonus" for imbibing alcoholic beverages. I will add " responsibly imbibing in alcoholic beverages", but I may be biased.
what if you've already hit your limit? still get the one year?

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Old 07-17-2019, 01:17 PM   #62
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I've been able to just "cut back" on my drinking to just a few a week.
that's awesome!
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Old 07-17-2019, 01:56 PM   #63
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Actually it was 94.2 when he got to 93.5 so he beat it even at the last!
Can a person age faster than the government updating the life expectancy tables?


"Say what", I can hear someone ask.

Sorry, but I just finished watching a Fermilab Youtube video on how the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, such that there are galaxies that we will never see, no matter how many billions of years we are willing to wait.
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Old 07-18-2019, 09:06 AM   #64
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Can a person age faster than the government updating the life expectancy tables?
I think he just spent his whole life at the 80th percentile of the life expectancy curves!

I use 80% to account for the worst case for how long my stash will last. The spread between 20% and 80% is something like 14 years. Add in my younger wife and there is another few years.
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Old 07-18-2019, 10:15 AM   #65
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Just listened to a Terri Gross podcast (interview) with Geriatrician MD (Dr Louise Aronson). Interesting medical info regarding how the body changes when we age. Medicines react differently and the immune system changes dramatically. How meds affect the organs, especially kidney and liver. Good listen but approx. 50 minutes. There is a summary if you don't want to listen to the interview.



https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...cians-can-help
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Old 07-21-2019, 09:09 PM   #66
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That's why I quit riding motorcycles. To many close calls. I don't lead a healthy lifestyle but motorcycles got my attention (more than once) as too risky for me. Probably my riding style, which I refused to change, significantly increased that risk.


There are only two things that I've really enjoyed in life but quit due to higher risks. Smoking and motorcycles.
I tried riding motorcycle a few times and I liked it. But, I am absent minded at times when I am driving. I will be the same way when I ride motorcycle. I stopped riding bicycle b/c I ran into a few accidents caused by being absent minded. Riding motorcycle will significantly curtail my longevity. I am sure of it.
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Old 07-23-2019, 05:28 PM   #67
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Old 07-23-2019, 09:28 PM   #68
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I’m a 1954 baby too. I sure don’t feel as if I’ll be dead in less than 10 years. 😂
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Old 07-23-2019, 11:03 PM   #69
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I just turned 68, retired in 2010. This calculator says I'm going to live to 105!

How depressing!
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Old 07-24-2019, 04:57 AM   #70
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I am 53 and live in the UK. I retired at 51.

This calculator https://www.confused.com/life-insura...ncy-calculator
suggests I will live to 53 if I:

Smoke 20+ a day, have more than 3 hours of passive smoking, do no exercise, eat lots of fried/fatty foods, eat no fruit or vegetables, have an unhappy relationship with 3 or more traumatic life events, with no friends and both parents dead before 75, and overall very unhappy. Maximum 8 more months..

Luckily I am the complete opposite to those things (but I used to smoke) so it reckons I'll live to 91 :-)
I'll take that!!!
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Old 07-24-2019, 06:01 AM   #71
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I just turned 68, retired in 2010. This calculator says I'm going to live to 105!

How depressing!
Not sure why you would find that depressing. But I'm sure the calculator doesn't say that you must live to 105. You always have choices.
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Old 07-24-2019, 07:13 AM   #72
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May you all beat the tables and help to bankrupt the SS system!
We're planning on it, Koolau. Continued best wishes to you!
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I just turned 68, retired in 2010. This calculator says I'm going to live to 105!

How depressing!
That calculator requires a month/day/year birthdate, an email address, and a statement that you accept their privacy policy.

I put in a fake birth date, but I'm not going to give them my real email.
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Old 07-28-2019, 07:20 PM   #74
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Yeah, about averages ...

A black belt where I worked made a comment once about averages, it went something like this:

If a guy has one foot in a bucket of ice water and the other foot in a bucket of near boiling hot water, on average, he's fine.



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Simple, eh? Average Life Expectancy is 78.6 years.

Maybe not that simple. That 78.6 is the average for men and women for persons born in 2010. Since you weren't born in 1910, is there another way of looking at age?

Try this:

https://www.infoplease.com/life-expe...-sex-1930-2010

It's the average life expectancy based birth year. Much ado about nothing, except that you might want to see how you're doing compared to the odds.

For example, if you were born around 1960, your average life expectancy would be age 70.

In my case, when I was born, life expectancy, would be 62.(now 83)

Yes... averages are meaningless, but can give a sense of perspective.

An aside... this year, for the second year in a row, life expectancy will be shorter than the year before.

https://fortune.com/2018/02/09/us-li...dropped-again/
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Old 07-29-2019, 09:43 AM   #75
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"An aside... this year, for the second year in a row, life expectancy will be shorter than the year before."

Due to two reported reasons, suicides and drug overdoses. Sad.
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That calculator requires a month/day/year birthdate, an email address, and a statement that you accept their privacy policy.

I put in a fake birth date, but I'm not going to give them my real email.
I'm with you.

It is disingenuous to wait until the last page before they reveal that to get your results you must give them identifying data. That alone is reason enough to withhold it.
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I'm with you.

It is disingenuous to wait until the last page before they reveal that to get your results you must give them identifying data. That alone is reason enough to withhold it.
Actually, you don't have to tell them anything.

I used that site and for my email I put in qwer@tyui.net and equally fictitious other data. No problem, I just kept clicking and got my results. They must have many thousands of similar entries and don't care.
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Old 07-30-2019, 09:35 AM   #78
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Here is what the bible says.

Psalm 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten.
That’s what my father always said, and he lived to be fourscore. He dug a big patch of English ivy out of our yard when he was 74.
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Actually, you don't have to tell them anything.

I used that site and for my email I put in qwer@tyui.net and equally fictitious other data. No problem, I just kept clicking and got my results. They must have many thousands of similar entries and don't care.
This is true and I had thought of making up an email address, but I've had occasions where the website checked to see if it was real before proceeding. It just seemed like more trouble than it was worth. So I closed the tab and returned here to read more interesting stuff.

What I need to do is create a real account for all the times when someone I never want to hear from again asks me for my email. Then all I need do is go there once a month or so and delete everything. Meh, maybe later.
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