What is your remaining estimated life expectancy?

Uhoh.

The OP ate my link to the calculator I was using.

The SS table says “exact age.” I am none of those ages exactly, so unknown!

Last week I looked at some charts, and chances are still about 75% or more that I’m out of here within 5 years.

The good news is that if I do make it to 5 years from now, there’s almost a 50% chance I’ll make it another 5. So yay!

Men in my family, even those just married into it, all tend to die between 65 and 75. The women we marry all tend to die between 80 and 100. My Dad always insisted it was by choice on our side of the equation; we want some peace and quiet at least in the here-after. :wink:

Age early 50s, Expect to see roughly 90 (based on health, and family history) - So 35+ more years.

I just used the calculator we use at work, and it gives me 37.6 more years. So dead at about 86.3. That’s just waaay too long.

The calculator upthread jumped up and down between 71 and 78 as I said I eat badly and don’t exercise but have never smoked and do buckle up. :slight_smile:

22 years? I’ll be happy with 8!

I’m not sure how to vote. The SOC chart gives me 42.4 years, and the calculator in post #22 says 49.

I’m not sure what to think of the calculator, though. It only asked about heart issues, which no one in my family developed by age 55 or died of it. They usually die of cancer or incurable pneumonia. I mean Jesus, my mom, and both grandmothers died before 70 (mom and her mom didn’t even see 60), and I’m supposed to live into my 80s?

This. 15-some years ago, as a 40-something community-college re-entry student, we got surveyed on this in my mandatory Health Ed class. Now I always felt (at the time) that my health habits were more-or-less adequate, not spectacularly good or bad, but mediocre. I didn’t smoke, drink, do drugs, go trekking in mosquito-infested rain forests, none of that.

Nonetheless, the survey said I was already dead, even at 40-something. (I’ve managed to survive to 65 now.)

And the real shit-kicker? I still had to take the final exam in that class!

Like, they were going to award me some grade points beyond the grave?

There are 7 columns, just call them Columns A-G going from left to right.

Find your age in years in Column A.
Are you male or female?
If male, check column D for how many years you have left.
If you are female, check column G for how many years you have left.

If you are 44 years old, you have 34.88 years if you are a male, 38.66 years if you are a female.

However those are general numbers.

Smokers have a life expectancy about ~10 years less than non-smokers.

People whose education stopped at high school have 9-15 years less life expectancy than college graduates

The bottom 10% of income earners in a wealthy nation live ~10 years less than the top 10% of income earners

Blacks live shorter than whites, who live shorter than latinos and asians, etc.

Family history plays a major role

etc

As a general rule of thumb, if you lead a healthy lifestyle (non smoker, thin, active, low stress, good education, good income, good quality medical care, etc) you’ll probably die in your 80s, if you have an unhealthy lifestyle you’ll die in your 70s. Thats assuming you have average genetics. If you have shit genetics, you could end up dead in your 50s, if you have amazing genetics you could live to 95 despite being an obese smoker.

(The other columns aren’t relevant to the discussion. Column B are your odds of dying within a year if male, Column E are the odds if female. Column C is the number of males alive out of 100,000 born by the age listed in column A, Column F is the number of females out of 100,000 alive by the age listed in column A). Example, at age 90 only 17% of men and 29% of women who were born 90 years ago are still alive. A man has a 16% chance of dying within a year, a woman has a 13% chance.

I’m fucking immortal, of a kind. I’ve got another 264 years.

Social security expect to keep paying me for nine more years. But my parents lived 15 and 20 years past my present age, and I’ve backpacked to six continents since I turned 75, I think I have a good chance of beating that, unless I die in a bus plunge in Ecuador.

My ancestors are all over the place in terms of age at death. Father at 69, mother at 82. Grandparents all varying from 60s to 80s. Despite my father dying at 69, his three siblings who survived into old age (a fourth died early on in a plane crash) all made it into their 80s, and his oldest brother is now a healthy 96, about to turn 97 this month. So with me, it’s a crap shoot.