# How long will YOU live? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119 "2003-09-17T13:08:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mmm.forbidden\_doughnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@mmm.forbidden\_doughnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmm.forbidden_doughnut)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/1 "2003-09-17T13:08:12Z")
How long will [YOU](http://channels.netscape.com/ns/atplay/lifeline.jsp) live? Supposedly, I’ll live to age 78 (sans deadly accidents, etc.). By sheer coincidence, there’s a nice little companion thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=211705) . [cue creepy music…] ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/2 "2003-09-17T13:14:00Z")
According to this thing I am already dead. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/3 "2003-09-17T13:24:12Z")
Holy Crap! That thing has got to be wrong! 81? I’ll be doing good if I get to 60! ---
**Author:** ![mmm.forbidden\_doughnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@mmm.forbidden\_doughnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmm.forbidden_doughnut)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/4 "2003-09-17T13:30:56Z")
I thought mine was kinda high, too, considering I’m _cough!ahem_ pounds overweight and abhor all forms of exercise. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/5 "2003-09-17T13:36:17Z")
I’ll live to a ripe old age of 60. I don’t even have 40 years left. ---
**Author:** ![Plankspanker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Plankspanker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plankspanker)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/6 "2003-09-17T13:36:34Z")
Ha! 79! Bullshit! I’ll be lucky if i get to 30! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/7 "2003-09-17T13:37:44Z")
83 for me. I highly doubt it…I smoke like it’s my fucking job. I drink, I don’t exercise, and I’m not all that fond of vegetables. How can this equate to 83? ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/8 "2003-09-17T13:39:34Z")
Hmm… 72… I was expecting around late seventies… ---
**Author:** ![mmm.forbidden\_doughnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@mmm.forbidden\_doughnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmm.forbidden_doughnut)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/9 "2003-09-17T13:40:23Z")
Maybe it’s placing a greater emphasis on genetics? My hubby is alot more overweight than I am (but had a grandmother live to age 84) and it gave him 74 years. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/10 "2003-09-17T13:41:32Z")
And I guess I’m currently the only one who expected something higher than what I got… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/11 "2003-09-17T13:42:53Z")
1. Well, with my family background on my mother’s side, I fully expect to live well into my 80s, assuming I got those genes. My great-grandmother is 102 and still going. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/12 "2003-09-17T14:34:43Z")
1. We’ll see 'bout that. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/13 "2003-09-17T14:57:14Z")
1. Sounds pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/14 "2003-09-17T15:27:03Z")
I am going to live to be 92. Huh, I will believe that when I see it! ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/15 "2003-09-17T15:30:26Z")
1. Makes sense. One of my great grandparents died at 98. Two of my grandparents are pushing 90, and still going strong. The other two died, but after 80. By that reckoning, I’, not even half done, and I’m 34. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/16 "2003-09-17T15:48:30Z")
1. How are you people getting 90s? I don’t smoke, I excercise, I’m happy, I live with my family, etc. etc., I figured they are all the right questions, yet the bastards are shaving nearly 10 years of my life? Those bastards at Netscape, I’ll show them! I’m going to live til 120 just to prove them wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Pelleas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@Pelleas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pelleas)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/17 "2003-09-17T15:48:37Z")
1. That’s about what I figured it would say. I don’t smoke, I exercise regularly and and most of my family has lived to 80 or more. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/18 "2003-09-17T15:56:40Z")
79 for me, though the test pretty much doesn’t include 20 year olds such as myself… ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/19 "2003-09-17T16:05:05Z")
1. That’s much too long. Guess I’ll have to start smoking again 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119/20 "2003-09-17T16:11:42Z")
85, which is probably about right. All my grandparents are still going at 80+, and unlike them I don’t smoke. Unless maybe that means I should start??! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-live/202119.md?page=2)