50 is the start, 70 is the end of both the study and of mid-life.
Also life-expectancy goes up if you exclude it to an older demographic. Because the math for calculating an average works out to a higher amount when you leave out the small values that didn't make your group. That's why infant mortality is often removed from life expectancy calculators, especially for insurance companies who don't use the same structure for a children's life insurance as they would for an adults whole or term life insurance.
It's not unreasonable to plan finances around living 80-90 years. And have some thought about of what to do if you live to be 100 or more.
Potentially society altering changes to longevity are probably in the lifetimes of Zoomers. Who may face productive working ages into the 90's and occasionally life going beyond 140 years. Without some significant breakthroughs I think the upper limit is probably around 160 years for the human species, but who knows how future generations might tackle the ethics of genetic manipulation.
50 is the start, 70 is the end of both the study and of mid-life.
What, people are living to be 100 to 140 years old? I would take mid life to be late 30s thru early 50s, more or less.
Potentially society altering changes to longevity are probably in the lifetimes of Zoomers. Who may face productive working ages into the 90's and occasionally life going beyond 140 years.
While life expectancy [ourworldindata.org] of adults has gone up dramatically over the last century or two, the life expectancy of those making it to 100 has n
the life expectancy of those making it to 100 has not made that much progress,
Diet and exercise alone leads people making it past 100 up to winning the genetic lottery, that's not likely to change without selective pressure lasting for hundreds of thousands of years.
Of course we humans like to hack around nature. You see this in health and athletics. There are people today with more muscle mass than would have been possible even 100 years ago. People able to tackle once impossible technical rock climbs because of impr
I have so many Steam games that I haven't beat yet. I intend to go through them during retirement, but even so, it's unlikely I'll finish even half of them before I die. If I also included all my old DOS games (I have probably 100 CD-ROMs) and console games, well that's not going to happen unless I have the spice melange.
Midlife (Score:4, Funny)
So now age 70 is "midlife". I look forward to living to age 140.
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Yes, Biden is a spry middle aged leader... and no he DOES NOT have dementia.
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Re:Midlife (Score:5, Interesting)
50 is the start, 70 is the end of both the study and of mid-life.
Also life-expectancy goes up if you exclude it to an older demographic. Because the math for calculating an average works out to a higher amount when you leave out the small values that didn't make your group. That's why infant mortality is often removed from life expectancy calculators, especially for insurance companies who don't use the same structure for a children's life insurance as they would for an adults whole or term life insurance.
It's not unreasonable to plan finances around living 80-90 years. And have some thought about of what to do if you live to be 100 or more.
Potentially society altering changes to longevity are probably in the lifetimes of Zoomers. Who may face productive working ages into the 90's and occasionally life going beyond 140 years. Without some significant breakthroughs I think the upper limit is probably around 160 years for the human species, but who knows how future generations might tackle the ethics of genetic manipulation.
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What, people are living to be 100 to 140 years old? I would take mid life to be late 30s thru early 50s, more or less.
While life expectancy [ourworldindata.org] of adults has gone up dramatically over the last century or two, the life expectancy of those making it to 100 has n
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What, people are living to be 100
that definitely happens.
30s thru early 50s, more or less.
it's more widely accepted to be 40s to 60s.
the life expectancy of those making it to 100 has not made that much progress,
Diet and exercise alone leads people making it past 100 up to winning the genetic lottery, that's not likely to change without selective pressure lasting for hundreds of thousands of years.
Of course we humans like to hack around nature. You see this in health and athletics. There are people today with more muscle mass than would have been possible even 100 years ago. People able to tackle once impossible technical rock climbs because of impr
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I could deal with living forever, I've still got a lot of things I haven't gotten around to yet.
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I have so many Steam games that I haven't beat yet. I intend to go through them during retirement, but even so, it's unlikely I'll finish even half of them before I die. If I also included all my old DOS games (I have probably 100 CD-ROMs) and console games, well that's not going to happen unless I have the spice melange.
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And have some thought about of what to do if you live to be 100 or more.
What, you mean apart from sitting in front of my lawn with a shotgun on my lap?