When I reached retirement age, I had the option to defer my state pension in return for increased benefits later on.
Part of the decision-making process was to make an estimate of how long I might live to benefit from the extra pension and that site came up with very nearly the same result as I did.
Even more so if you indicate a really high income. If your income is high enough it does not matter how much you smoke & eat and how little you work out: you will live forever and need them.
I am glad to read that most people here will get older than me.
Serves you right.
I got 92, which is 30 yrs from now. And I agree with Jasmine’s “Will human civilization even last another 50 years before it collapses into chaos?!” except that I’m sincerely worried about 20 or 30 years before the collapse.
I got 95, but I thought I might have fudged a bit at ‘5-7 drinks per week’, so I went back and set it to the highest setting of ‘8 or more drinks per week’ and it only dropped to 93. I’ll drink to that!
(not really, still getting over Covid, plus I always do a dry January)
Exercise won’t make you live longer, it’ll just seem like it.
It says I have 25 years left. Seems a bit excessive, but I suppose it might have guessed differently if it had asked about untreated hypertension. I scored 141/104 yesterday, I’m getting pretty good!
With the little information asked I’m sure they are skewing very high. I was truthful about my weight. I used to smoke but quit long ago. That should push it a little lower. If it asked about how long my relatives lived it would say I will live forever or die any day now. No middle ground on either side of my family.
It gave me 86 with answers of ‘220 lbs’ for my weight and ‘Good’ for my health.
It went up to 88 if I get down to 195 lbs and get my health to ‘Very Good’.
Getting married would up the estimated ages to 91 and 94. That is a huge difference.
ETA: It seems my life expectancy would go up if I increased my drinking. That seems counter intuitive.
Didn’t try playing with the factors, but the “drink more, live longer” is controversial, with opponents believing there’s no way to sufficiently control for biases such as people cutting alcohol due to health issues.
That is clearly bananas. No male in my paternal line has made it to within ten years of that, and genes are the single biggest factor in your life expectancy.