[senior citizen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries_by_life_expectan cy


List of countries by life expectancy, put out by W.H.O. (World Health Organization)


For United States:
Overall life expectancy is 79.8
Men: 77.4
Women: 82.2


Would anyone care to share their actual age at the moment?


To get an idea of how many younger retirees vs. the slightly older and much older retirees residing in T.V.


The United States is number 35 on the list.
Sierra Leone is last at number 193 with a life expectancy of 47.5


Curious as to which country is number one?????

I have one person in my family tree born there. (Actually, I have five as all four of her children were also born there; my cousins). She did live into the upper 90's....and was a female who married into my paternal Tucci family....raised their kids in Monaco and then Paris France. My Cousin was a G.I. who met a French gal at the end of World War II and agreed to settle in her home town.


At first they'd bring the babies home to "Grandma and Grandpa" in Brooklyn via a ship.......later they flew. I have the ship's manifests for each crossing........and their wedding pictures in a big cathedral in Paris. One daughter remains in Paris today. One is in Hawaii. One son is in California. The other son is in Kentucky. The parents are gone. Cousin Joe looked just like my father. Joe's father and my dad Joe's mother were siblings.


What a life. Who would have thunk it?


I also have an "oldster" friend whose daughter manages a big hotel in Monaco......Ritz Carlton.....(originally from North Carolina).
She invited us to come and stay with her when she visits her daughter in Monaco, but we've never taken her up on it. She actually had been in the "tunnel" enroute to a visit, several moments before Princess Diana was in the car accident. Life is stranger than fiction.


As far as aging, or being called an oldster, it doesn't bother me, as long as my brain is functioning. That's the important thing.
Our intellect.

Small world. Love these charts. Makes one ponder.