# Life expectancy calculator

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-expectancy-calculator/15725>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 30, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-expectancy-calculator/15725 "2000-03-30T20:35:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-expectancy-calculator/15725/21 "2000-04-04T03:03:00Z")

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> Originally posted by cher3:  
> \*\*Fogmage:
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> 42? Good, grief! If it’s not prying, what on earth do you do that cut you down that far? Do you defuse bombs for a living or something?\*\*

Well I liked to say it’s sex, drugs & rock’n roll, but I don’t do any of that. My big problem (pun intended) is my weight. I am morbidly obease. If I could get to my ideal weight, I might live to 85 or so. I’m just not sure I want to.

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**Author:** ![brooklyn44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/51bf81/32.png) [@brooklyn44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brooklyn44)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-expectancy-calculator/15725/22 "2000-04-04T03:21:00Z")

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Aaaarrrgggghhh. It’s 101 for me. My mom died at age 90, her parents were also nonagenarians. This is not a good thing. All of them suffered from dementia from their 80s on.  
My wish is to wake up dead one morning in my mid-70s. I will have lived to see at least my first (so far my only) grandchild graduate from college and perhaps marry. My two daughters would be in their 50s. And I would have been retired a decade and have spend all my dough.

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-expectancy-calculator/15725/23 "2000-04-04T05:27:00Z")

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Life expectancy: 87 FUCK!

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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-expectancy-calculator/15725/24 "2000-04-08T08:25:00Z")

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> Originally posted by spooje:  
> **Life expectancy: 87 FUCK!**

How long is a FUCK?  
How many FUCK’s in a year or years in a FUCK?

(someone had to asked)

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**Author:** ![Sentinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sentinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sentinel)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-expectancy-calculator/15725/25 "2000-04-10T05:36:00Z")

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Oh, now this is cool!

When I answered the questions normally, I got 62 years.

When I went back and said I smoked pot once or twice a week --\*\* 5 years were added to my lifespan!\*\* It read 67!

Damn! Maybe I ought to start smoking pot!

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**Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.**

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