Life Expectancy calculator

[Car-Guy]

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Originally Posted by mistermike40 However, given it's sponsored by a retirement investment firm, I think they may be biased towards making you think your nest egg needs to last longer than you had originally planned.

That may be true since it said 12 more years for me.... Honestly, that seems pretty optimistic from my POV at this point.

[Time2]

I'm going to take it again, but this time I'm going to lie, I want a new number, mine was 86. I'll show them!

[Navigator]

I admit to using longevity calculators once in a while and it is fun to see they predict I’ll live to a ripe old age such as 107. However, these calculators are suspect. They usually use annuity or pension mortality tables, which tend to overestimate life expectancy because they were developed to prevent financial companies from going bankrupt. All those questions about weight, exercise, family history, etc? They are no more useful at predicting longevity than asking the subjective question, “What is your general health?” I certainly wouldn’t give any of these sites my email address.

[PatrickA5]

Made it all the way through and at the end it said I made an error- but wouldn't tell me where the error was. Oh well, based on other's answers I'll assume somewhere between 75 and 105.

[F.I.R.E User]

Anyone get beyond 110?

[robnplunder]

93 for me. Yes, I gave them a fake e-mail address and it worked.

I don't think I will live that long. If I do, I won't remember it b/c I am likely to get the dreaded Alzheimer's disease.

[camfused]

91. I still plan for us to live to 100, in case we screw up and live that long.

[street]

My result said 95. We will see not sure I can beleive that but that age would be nice if health was fairly good.

[bolt]

I suspect freebie sites like these are certainly predictive & entertaining but ultimately data accumulators, akin to 23me's DNA data analisis for a fee.

I do not want to live past 85, unless medical science develops meteorically!

Good luck & Best wishes..

[Car-Guy]

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Originally Posted by bolt I do not want to live past 85, unless medical science develops meteorically!

It's not medical science that worries me... It's what the quality of life would be..... Makes all the difference in the world to me.

[braumeister]

it said 96 for me, and that brought back an odd memory.

Some time in her 80s, I accompanied my mother to her doctor for something, and they got to chatting. For whatever reason, the doc said "How long do you think you'll live?"
Without a split second's hesitation, mom said "96."

A bit taken aback, he asked her why, and her response was "My father lived to 96 and I'm a lot like him so I will too."

Sure enough, she made it to 96. So when I saw that number for me, I had to wonder, because I'm a lot like he was too!

[Nemo2]

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Originally Posted by Car-Guy . It's what the quality of life would be..... Makes all the difference in the world to me.

As noted before, DW's father will be 95 in a couple weeks. Compared to so many he's led an illness free life; he's fallen a few times in the last little while, and he's ready to leave.

Quote:

"Well, if we go to heaven, and some say we don't But if there's a reckoning day Please God, I'll see You and maybe I won't I've a bag packed to go either way"

Mark Knopfler Heart Full of Holes

[Time2]

Did anyone watch 60 minutes last week, it was about aging and had some remarkable 100 year olds, one guy that that you might have thought was in his 70s.


Start at 20:19.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/60minu...november-22/#x

[samm]

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Originally Posted by Walt34 Poor me, I'm only gonna make it to 88. As a side note, my first three attempts at a fake email address, composed entirely of naughty words, were rejected as "already taken". On the fourth attempt I made up one that worked. I guess I'm just not very imaginative when it comes to creating fake addresses.

88 for me

created fake email to get answer

[Dash man]

83 for me, which is 19 years away. Considering both my parents and two of my grandparents died young, I wasn’t surprised. But they all smoked. I never have.

[Teacher Terry]

I got 96. I don’t expect that to happen.

[Dreamer]

I got 85. I hope that I do better than that number. I need to start exercising more. I have already outlived my paternal grandparents, parents and one brother. I also feel lucky I have made it this far.

[Rambler]

Mine said 83, so I’ve got another 24 years. My paternal grandparents passed at 60 and 62, maternal grandparents at 77 and 80. All of them had cancer except maternal grandpa who had a heart attack, then a stroke in his late 50s and early sixties, and died of a massive heart attack at 77. My mom is 84, has congestive heart failure and a pacemaker, and dad at 85 has now had two bouts of cancer and has heart issues. That said, while didn’t run my wife’s numbers, she is Japanese and skinny as a rail. She’ll probably live 95, so we still have to make the funds last...

[Dhickman57]

85, do not expect to live that long. Lifestyle

[W2R]

Just 91 for me, too.

I am still planning to not run out of money until I'm 116, though, just in case!