How long do you expect to live?
 

Life expectancy.

seems like a 65 year old can be spry, and have 20-30 years left, or be on death's door. I've met both.

I meet a lot of people, and get to see their birth dates..... i hate it when someone tells me that 'this will be my last car' .....but some times I can tell it's the truth they speak.

How long will you live, excluding accidental death......?

Long enough to enjoy grandchildren. At that point my life will be complete.

I'm more concerned with being able to get around and have all my mental faculties entact than I am living to some advanced age and be drooling in a wheel chair and peeing my pants in some nursing home. If that means I die at 60, so be it.

I will probably live until I die, possibly longer, but it's hard to say.

My friend is always talking about if he builds a house he will make it one story so he won't have issues with the stairs. I ask him why he expects to be infirm in his old age. I expect to bop till I drop. My dad walked his usual 4 miles a few days before he died.

About 20 years less (fewer?) than I have. I figure I'm ahead, so I picked 91-100.

With the amount of cancer in my family, I'm voting for under 70.

Most of my ancestors have lived into their 90s, so I'm holding out for that.

I really have no idea.

With my family, I'd give it a range from 78 - 82.

I've already outlived some close relatives, and I'm 35. I voted for under 60.

I was looking at an actuarial table of life expectancy once and the funny thing is, the longer you live, the longer you are likely to live.
e.g. at birth to the first year you have an avg life expectancy of something like 65 yrs. Make it to age one and your LE jumps to something like 71. With each passing year yourLE grows slightly. Pass certain milestones like making it through the shoals of the sudden heart attack at 40-60 and you see another small leap in LE.

I wish I had a copy of it. Lawyers and ins companies use them in calculating judgements.

Given my family history, it wouldn't be surprising at all to see me get cancer in my 40s. But I'm hoping lifestyle has warded that off.

Thru the day at least...

I'm in my mid-fifties and, as a rule, my forebears seem to have been fairly long lived. Of course there is an exception to every rule. I just hope that I'm not that exception.:headshake

My mother died last year at the age of eighty-three and my dad is still doing reasonably well at the age of eighty-four.
However, I am feeling the strain of looking after him. I suspect he is trying to see me off first so he can leave it all to the dogs' home with a clear conscience:eek:

It is also said that unmarried men (ME!) tend to depart this mortal vale of tears rather earlier than their married counterparts.
Note to self: Don't borrow any library books.

Carruthers.

I'm surprised every day that I woke up alive. :rolleyes:

That said, I hope I die before I get old.

On the other hand, married women tend to die sooner than unmarried women (actually, those who never married; I think divorced women are expected to die at the same time as their married counterparts.)

I wonder if that still applies if the women married late, like I did, at 40? Still, one of my grandmothers died at 98 (and sharp as a tack and healthy when she did), and the other is still alive - and she is in her late 90's. My mother is still going strong at 78. I think I have a good chance.

As stated in my post #14, most of my forebears have been blessed with long lives. However, I've recently been carrying out some family history research and discovered that my 4 x Great Grandmother, Susanna, who was born in 1786 had seven children, the last two of which were twin boys, Henry and William. In October 1819 Henry died at the age of nineteen days and his mother died ten days later at the age of thirty-three years. William died in the following February at the age of four months.

The register of burials for the time is littered with the names of children who survived, at best, a few months and adults who didn't live past their mid-forties.
Life truly was nasty, brutish and short.

Carruthers

I guess I would want to live long enough to be able to take care of myself. After that I would be done. I don't want to live in a situation where others have to care for me, like my mother is now. I would just want to end it at that point. So I guessed 71-80.

I feel that way about my body most days.

I was starting to have a good time here again until I saw this post. Is this how you see all people in wheelchairs? As someone in a wheelchair, I'm seriously offended.

Add this answer to the poll. It's a good one.

Now that I've got those two outta the way....

I shall live until the dark lord calls for me, MUAHAHAHA! :evil2:

All 4 of my grandparents died in their 50s. No blood relative of mine has lived longer than 62 years. And everyone of them died of cancer.

This means I have about 12 years max to hook up with every male on this board.

:D

She didn't say that. Stop projecting your hangups on her.

Do you need a wheelchair to get around, huh? Do you have a birth defect that severely affect your balance?

She said she feared lack of mobility and losing her mind.

I'm sure I know which of those two better apply to you.

You're welcome.

Well, since you put it that way. My calm is re-enhancing, but she coulda left out the parts about the drooling and the peeing in the pants.

That is a realistic fear to those of us who have never dealt with it. Similar to going blind or getting Alzheimers.

Which part, the drooling, the over active bladder, or being stuck in a wheelchair all day. Cuz being in a wheelchair really isn't that bad, at least not for me.

That's because you're not drooling, and peeing in your pants. Well, you could be, but you haven't mentioned it.
Having my druthers, I'd druther not have to depend on a wheel chair to get around. But if it comes to that, it's got to be at least 400 horsepower.

Ok, for the record, no I don't.

Like this:

If I could PM you I would explain.

Ok, it's now enabled.