Life Expectancy

[pegkerr]

This life expectancy calculator predicts I will live to the age of 95. Once you complete the survey, you get a list of factors which you can adjust to improve your odds, based on your answers. No identifying info is needed to complete the test. Interesting.

Comments

[slrose.livejournal.com]

I'll have to wait until June, because I'm neither under nor over 49. :)

[jbru.livejournal.com]

The last of these I saw predicted that Kieth Richards had died in about 1987. :) I'm predicted to make it to 77; I'm guessing that's largely because I don't exercise. I plan on making it to at least 80, though.

[naomikritzer]

It doesn't want to load for me.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Me, either.

It's probably for the better. I'm currently taking steps to improve matters, but I really don't want to see that I'm currently less longevity-gifted than I might wish.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Gah, I could live to be 101 with no changes--and if I changed, 105?! I think I'll stick with my bad air and sun exposure, thanks very much. Maybe I'll enjoy being 100 more than the people I've known who were getting there.

[enegim.livejournal.com]

Thank you; that was much more reassuring than I'd expected. I got a prediction of 85, where I was expecting something closer to 70.

While I'm at it, thank you for The Wild Swans, which I recently read and enjoyed greatly.

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

If I gave up coffee and fast food I could add a year and a half; if I had health checkups and got my blood sugar checked I could add one year; if I eliminated all sources of stress I could add two years (but giving up coffee and going for medical checkups would be stressful, so that's not going to happen) and, bizarrely, if I flossed my teeth I could gain a year. And another two years by taking aspirin, but the calculator doesn't know that I shouldn't take aspirin because it gives me vertigo and headaches.

Ah well, the 97 years it calculated for me are quite enough.

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

It loaded when I refreshed the page.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for letting me know you enjoyed the book.