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View Poll Results: at what age will you carc it? | |||
I won't see 60 |
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2 | 10.00% |
61-70 |
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3 | 15.00% |
71-80 |
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7 | 35.00% |
81-90 |
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3 | 15.00% |
91-100 |
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4 | 20.00% |
rasputin 101+ |
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1 | 5.00% |
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#1 |
I can hear my ears
Join Date: Oct 2003
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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......?
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Not here
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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.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: in a Nut House
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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.
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 21,206
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About 20 years less (fewer?) than I have. I figure I'm ahead, so I picked 91-100.
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Bitchy Little Brat
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Queensland, Australia
Posts: 5,067
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With the amount of cancer in my family, I'm voting for under 70.
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in a mood, not cupcake
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 3,034
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Most of my ancestors have lived into their 90s, so I'm holding out for that.
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#8 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
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I really have no idea.
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#9 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
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With my family, I'd give it a range from 78 - 82.
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Gone and done
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 4,808
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I've already outlived some close relatives, and I'm 35. I voted for under 60.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: in a Nut House
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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.
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
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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.
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Come on, cat.
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area
Posts: 7,013
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Thru the day at least...
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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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.
![]() 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 ![]() 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. |
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#15 |
Fucktard Resistance League
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: 1.14 acres of heaven
Posts: 1,512
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I'm surprised every day that I woke up alive.
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