Life Expectancy when you were born
 

The link article is basically "click bait", but it's still good to know I beat the original odds.:laugh:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/oth...&ei=21#image=1

Also, probably why Social Security is having issues.

According to the chart, I am six Olympic Games past my 'use by date.'

Skip the clickbait:

NCHS Data Visualization Gallery - Mortality Trends in the United States

Well, according to the data, a guy born in 1948 could expect to live about 66 years. Like I tell my wife, I've already outlived my warranty by ten years.

Life expectancy was 70.5 the year I was born. I am still 15 years from knowing if I will meet that date or not. I'd rather not know and stay 15 years away from that age :)

Life expectancy was 79 a hand full of years ago. It has dropped now to an average of 76. This will be getting worse if you don't do something about it. Listen to Robert Kennedy as he is spot on with this subject.
The poor quality of food we eat and sedentary lifestyle many live will cause many to die earlier.
It is amazing how many people have to monitor their A1C.

Dead man walking here. Not really sure if I should be happy or sad when I wake up in the morning. Then I see my wife. HAPPY! 🥰😍🥰

-Part of the drop is due to Covid's one time effect.
-You are correct about the food supply in the US being garbage bordering on poison, and the epidemic of type 2 diabetes.
-If you live in TV and are sedentary, no one can help you.

Self-help! Get up and move, while you still can. I need to take my own advice, seriously! 🤔😒😬

I haven't hit my 'game over' number yet, so who knows if they were right, all those many years ago?

I am way out of warranty!

When my mother was born (1929), life expectancy was 57.1 years. 12 years ago, a Dr. told her if she didn't have chest-cracked-open heart surgery, she would be dead in a year, maybe 2. She opted to not have the surgery, didn't want to spend a year recovering.

She will be 95 in eight weeks.

My dad was born in 1928, with a then-life expectancy of 56.8. He lived 10 weeks shy of his 90th. His health habits were far from the best - fairly sedentary his entire life and went from drinking coffee in the morning to wine in the evening with very little water ever. He even had open-stomach surgery for ulcers, back in the day before they realized an antibiotic could fix them.

Not too shabby.

I've never had a single childhood disease. Occasional cold, flu, or a sinus infection, but never had mumps, measles, mono, chickenpox, covid or anything else like that. Multiple surgeries for broken bones, ligaments, etc though.

This tells me to not put a lot of stock in NCHS data charts I guess.

Well, my father, born in 1898, drank bourbon and beer. After he retired he drank a fruit juice glass of Jim Beam, the old fashioned 4 oz - I think - size at ten, two and four, just like stated in the Dr. Pepper ad. He smoked a pipe (Sir Walter Raleigh in the big can), never cigarettes, until he developed emphysema. At breakfast he had prunes, toast with butter and jam, eggs, bacon and oatmeal with cream from the top of the unhomogenized bottles of milk delivered to us. I never saw him exercise but he worked in the yard on weekends. He had the Spanish Flu in 1918, lived through both world wars and the Great Depression. He developed Parkinson's disease and lived with it for years. He almost made 94 before he passed away. My mother predeceased him by five years at her age of 81 and I don't believe he wanted to live another day after she died, but he did. She suffered through rheumatic fever as a child which had affected her heart.

You just never know...

How Long You Were Expected to Live the Year You Were Born
 

The title of the original link is "How Long You Were Expected to Live the Year You Were Born."

I get more consolation from the tables that tell, how much longer can I expect to live? The Social Security website has a basic calculator, based solely on current age. Other calculators can also figure in your health, habits, and genetics.

It is all about probabilty though. For example, your doctor may say, if you take this medicine for your high blood pressure, you will live longer. Accurately, what he should say is, you will probably live longer. You might still get hit by a bus, leaving the doctor's office. Of course, you should always bet on the probable outcome.

BRAVO :bigbow: & I mean it sincerely. I also come from pretty healthy, long lived stock. (We're talking both Grams hit the big 3 digit number). Best wishes to your Mom.