tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post1072828271263979409..comments2024-03-28T22:33:29.066-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: MORBID REFLECTIONS ON MORBIDITY STATISTICSRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-50168874242806883722018-01-30T08:58:22.248-05:002018-01-30T08:58:22.248-05:00Such a deal!Such a deal!Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-52259472352687413822018-01-29T09:56:42.723-05:002018-01-29T09:56:42.723-05:00Michael Froomkin, you are of course right, althoug...Michael Froomkin, you are of course right, although for the purpose that originally set me looking [more anon], it doesn't matter. Jerry, I will make you a deal. If you will keep reading, I will keep posting, and we will both live to be truly ancient.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-34284456030614807672018-01-29T03:27:07.984-05:002018-01-29T03:27:07.984-05:00According to CNN, life expectancy in the US has dr...According to CNN, life expectancy in the US has dropped for the second year in a row.<br /><br />http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/21/health/us-life-expectancy-study/index.html<br /><br />And according to a TED talk which analyzed "blue zones" the key to living longer had to do with a rich set of extended personal relationships. That makes me toast.Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-75235136105699556172018-01-28T20:02:24.277-05:002018-01-28T20:02:24.277-05:00An awful lot of these comparisons are misleading b...An awful lot of these comparisons are misleading because they are distorted by rampant infant mortality in the past. To get a better idea of head-to-head comparisons, you need to compare the life expectancy of, say, a six-year-old in 1900 to 2000. "In 1900, 30 percent of all deaths in the United States occurred in children less than 5 years of age compared to just 1.4 percent in 1999." (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220806/)<br /><br />Thus, although there have been real gains in the life expectancy of all adults, none of them - young adults or old adults - are as dramatic as the numbers you quote (47 to 75) might make them seem.Michael Froomkinhttps://law.tmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-4306612357732730432018-01-28T18:39:46.193-05:002018-01-28T18:39:46.193-05:00You should outlive Freud and the Trump PresidencyYou should outlive Freud and the Trump PresidencyHowiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12474061778220524205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-68184428181189918972018-01-28T17:54:48.705-05:002018-01-28T17:54:48.705-05:00Thanks for doing the math.
/s/ Jerry Doolittle (ae...Thanks for doing the math.<br />/s/ Jerry Doolittle (aetas: 84)Jerome Doolittlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813066002480318316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-47760265917856346882018-01-28T13:42:25.983-05:002018-01-28T13:42:25.983-05:00There are lots of online tests on how long one wil...There are lots of online tests on how long one will live. You can google "how long will I live tests" I have no idea which of the tests is the most accurate.<br /><br />Obviously, someone who is 84 and is not a smoker nor obese nor addicted to junk food and who walks every day has more chances of making it to 95. <br /><br />After a certain age (in the mid 90's, I believe), living a health life seems to have little effect, since people then just die of simple old age, whether or not they take vitamins and eat chia seeds. s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.com