You know already: at any time, with the probability increasing with age along some sort of geometric curve. You need to be an actuary to have this stuff at your fingertips.
Best not to dwell on your genetics and the life patterns of recently deceased relations. That way lie gloom and anxiety, or alternatively a perhaps misplaced optimism.
|
I've had family live to very old age and also family live to very young ages. I personally think I will die of a heart attack before I reach 50. I am going off family history and my life style to come to that conclusion.
|
I would hate to know how, where or when I was going to die.
Just live life to the full so you've no regrets when the time comes...:-)
|
Save your cash, do it free here....
www.deathclock.com/
Ted
|
>>
>> Save your cash, do it free here....
>>
>> www.deathclock.com/
>>
>> Ted
Thanks a bunch ted, I have 16 years to live.
|
>> >>
>> Thanks a bunch ted, I have 16 years to live.
At least you'll get your telegram from the Monarch, Zedski !
Ted
>>
|
According to Ted's Death Clock, I'm exactly halfway there, using the optimistic setting - which is about what I was expecting, give or take 5 years.
Normal gives me another 31 years, which doesn't sound all that much.
Still, I've already outlived my Dad (Omnibus, or in his case, Austin Princess syndrome), and stand to outlive one grandfather in 4 years.
All my grandparents expired fairly young due to heart failure and cancer, all of them smoked 60 a day and ate an atrocious diet of fried and overly salted food. So I reckon I'll get 20 years on the longest lived of them (67) as I never smoked and don't eat too much salt. Mind you, I probably drink a bit too much, which none of them ever did.
|
Earlier this year I was informed of the demise of someone I used to house-share with - he was under 40 like me, and just keeled over with a heart attack. No obvious risk factors that I could think of. Made me feel just a little bit older that day :(
I'll be happy if I stay around long enough to see any future grandchildren grow up, I think that's all most people could ask for.
|
|
Same thing happened to my uncle, dropped dead at work. My grandma also had a heart attack work although luckily she survived and she is into her 80's now.
|
I personally think I will die of a heart attack before I reach 50.
If you don't fret yourself to death first.
|
|
Now I'm running semi-seriously again, I do worry what effect it's having on my lifespan. General fitness is presumably a good thing, but beyond a certain level are you just putting too much strain on your heart (and other bits?) and hastening your demise?
Last edited by: Focus on Tue 17 May 11 at 17:55
|
I had a massive operation last year full day job.Chemo before and after the op.Survival change over the next three years about fifty %.
I take everyday as it comes and enjoy my family.Die we all do when is the guess.;)
|
>> Now I'm running semi-seriously again, I do worry what effect it's having on my lifespan.
>> General fitness is presumably a good thing, but beyond a certain level are you just
>> putting too much strain on your heart (and other bits?) and hastening your demise?
>>
I still run competitively. At last year's Dovedale Dash.. I was well within the first 1/3rd to finish despite being in the last 5% by age. The oldest competitor - not me was 73.
If your heart has defects , running will accelrate your death. Otherwise it keeps your blood pressure, weight and other bitrs and pieces healthy.
I have the body of a sixty year old despite being 115..
|
Impact on the joints would be the biggest worry as you get older.
But I'm sure you running types know that.
|
>> Impact on the joints would be the biggest worry as you get older.
Ahh, but you see that madf mentioned weight. Running keeps it down, and the less weight, the less strain on the joints. But I found that to really burn the calories and control weight, I needed to be running for at least 50 mins.
When I saw Eddie Izzard run around the UK, that was inspiring to me. I've never seen such a change in a man so quickly and for the better - it took years off his age visually. That required great determination.
Last edited by: corax on Tue 17 May 11 at 19:59
|
|
Some people spend £435 on much more frivolous things than that.
|
|
I have 10 years to die.. wine wimmin and more wine -- here I come..
|
|
I don't know about the wimmin madf more wine.
|
So what about the bus?
I only ask because I walked out of the doctor's this morning feeling quite good and nearly got run over instantly.
|
Omnibus's apart - if one avoids smoking, immoderate alcohol use, red meat, animal fat, refined carbohydrate, junk/con-venience food, too much exercise, too little exercise, extra terrestrial sex etc., etc.
one could easily add a few more years to their lives.
|
>>www.deathclock.com/
Check out the vast difference between Normal and Optimistic mode. Thankfully, I've always been an optimist.
|
>> Omnibus's apart - if one avoids smoking, immoderate alcohol use, red meat, animal fat, refined
>> carbohydrate, junk/con-venience food, too much exercise, too little exercise, extra terrestrial sex etc., etc.
>> one could easily add a few more years to their lives.
>>
Fallacy..... you'd still die at 80, it'd just FEEL like you'd been around for 110.
|
>> Omnibus's apart - if one avoids smoking, immoderate alcohol use, red meat, animal fat,
>> refined
>> >> carbohydrate, junk/con-venience food,
>> >> one could easily add a few more years to their lives.
>> Fallacy..... you'd still die at 80, it'd just FEEL like you'd been around for 110.
Or you might just die at 110 and feel only 80.
|
The moment we're born our death starts walking towards us at the pace of it's own choosing, it never pauses and we can never avoid meeting it.
The date of our birth comes round each year and we celebrate it, yet the date we will meet our death passes by unknown to us.
|
>>>>The date of our birth comes round each year <<<<<
Groundhog day ?
|
The OP's question is really quite thought provoking.
On the one hand i would like to know so i can do my very best for my loved ones in the time i have left, particularly regarding keeping the thieves masquerading as our govt's hands off.
For obvious reasons i'd rather not know my possible fate if i live long enough to die of the predicted cause.
As for prolonging ones life, it makes good sense to keep fit and healthy if you can as it makes living more enjoyable too.
But living a sterile guinea pig's existance is no life either, life is for living, loving and enjoying, all things in moderation and don't knock it till you've tried it sweetie x.
|
Mummy had a healthy diet consisiting mainly of fruit, vegetables and fish, she never smoked and lived an active life but still died in her early 40's.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13422630
|
Just don't think about death :).
I do eat quite a lot of fruit but I eat too much full stop. My self employed life style means too many boring hours spent waiting for scans so I end up munching to pass the time.
Just five years ago I could not eat a 10" pizza, now a 12" is barely enough.
My life is going faster than a 911 turbo at the moment though. It was only last week I was celebrating NYE.
|
It's telling me my time expired many years ago.
So if I suddenly go quiet..............................
|
>>I do eat quite a lot of fruit but I eat too much full stop. My self employed life style means too many boring hours spent waiting for scans so I end up munching to pass the time.<<
Rats, why don't you just buy a secondhand exercise bike or multi-gym (the small ads are always full of them!) and put it in the corner to use while you're hanging around, rather than munching?
Having said that, I guess there's worse things anyone could be up to in their idle moments...
|
>> Omnibus's apart - if one avoids smoking, immoderate alcohol use, red meat, animal fat, refined carbohydrate, junk/con-venience food, too much exercise, too little exercise, extra terrestrial sex etc., etc.
>> one could easily add a few more years to their lives.
>>
>>
I am just back from a presentation by a top guy re blood pressure.
To add the above:-
Get your blood pressure checked and take the pills if required.
Get your eyes tested regularly. (The only non invasive method of blood vessel examination and it can identified serious problems).
Avoid Liquorice. This is not a joke! I had previously read about this in a BMJ .
|
Thats a good point about Liquorice my brother always brings me bags of the stuff they call it drop.I like the taste but it suppose to increase bloodpressure.
Any food in excess quantity can cause harm and every individual is different best enjoy live.I would say stress is more damaging than anything else.
|
|
Sex will increase blood pressure ~ Avoid!
|
According to the Deathclock link that Ted gave us (thanks), if I'm optimistic I'll live to 88; if I'm "normal" I'll live to 70, and if I'm pessimistic or sadistic I'm already dead.
Just as well that we have no idea. All I know if that Dr. Atkins (of the health diet) died at 72, and my mum who has been overweight for most of her life is 93 not out.
|
>>Oranges
Bananas and other fruits rich in potassium are said to lower blood pressure.
|
>>Bananas and other fruits rich in potassium are said to lower blood pressure.>>
True, but certain people such as those with kidney problems, have to avoid them.
See:
www.healthalternatives2000.com/minerals-nutrition-chart.html
www.healthalternatives2000.com/fruit-nutrition-chart.html
for benefits of fruit and vegetables.
|
Just done my own Death Clock.........Gonna snuff it the day before my 96th birthday.
Don't hold back on the prezzies and cards, though !
Ted
|
18 years to go.....
So precise - simply based on Body Mass Index. Shurely shome mishtake?
|
|
Detailed studies show that 90% of people told they are going to live for a very long time skip outside in high spirits and immediately get run over by a bus.
|
Want to know when you might die? - Armel Coussine
