Life Expectancy
Jan 26, 2024 16:17:04 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
Statistics are tricky.
For example in USA and specially Texas, we have higher mortality in newborns than other developed countries, so life expectancy for total population is lower than a lot of countries.
To avoid this some countries exclude early chilhood deaths from reports ( Cuba for one) also many countries do not have good statistics in areas of greater poverty.
Some, for comparison , calculate life expectancy once you have reached a certain age.
For us octogenarians results can be quite comforting.
Googled
9.1 years for 80-year-old white women and 7.0 years for 80-year-old white men.
Hope so.
For example in USA and specially Texas, we have higher mortality in newborns than other developed countries, so life expectancy for total population is lower than a lot of countries.
To avoid this some countries exclude early chilhood deaths from reports ( Cuba for one) also many countries do not have good statistics in areas of greater poverty.
Some, for comparison , calculate life expectancy once you have reached a certain age.
For us octogenarians results can be quite comforting.
Googled
9.1 years for 80-year-old white women and 7.0 years for 80-year-old white men.
Hope so.
Jan 26, 2024 16:19:33 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
You are right, few things have done more for health than quitting tobacco
Wonder how drug epidemic is biasing US life expectancy.
Wonder how drug epidemic is biasing US life expectancy.
Jan 26, 2024 16:25:07 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
I wonder what the life expectancy is for men whose wife finds out that they bought new camera gear compared to men with no interest in photography. 😁
I somehow survived after my wife got a phone call while I was at work.
"What time would you like us to deliver the new tractor?"
Jan 26, 2024 17:00:26 #
Chinese legend has this man called Peng Zu and said that he lived to 450 years old. Some legend said that god somehow mislocate him and didn't know where he was to bring him out of his earthy life. So God sent the angel of death looking for him. This angel diguised himself as a boy and went to a pond where he saw an old man fishing. The angel came and told the old man that he was fishing the wrong way. The old man said, what do you know little boy, I lived over 400 years and that how I fish. The angel knew it's him so he took his life.
So be careful Jerry.
So be careful Jerry.
Jan 26, 2024 17:06:50 #
I have heard it often said that if you can make it through your 60's you can make it 80 and beyond. A majority of okd people are killed by head injuries caused by falls. Many of the hundreds of 9-1-1 calls I ran were elderly tripping over stuff in their homes. Rugs were huge offenders for broken hips.
Jan 26, 2024 17:13:45 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
A broken hip predicts 25% mortality in less than 3 years, let’s be carefull where and how us oldsters step
Jan 26, 2024 17:34:44 #
Tote1940 wrote:
A broken hip predicts 25% mortality in less than 3 years, let’s be carefull where and how us oldsters step
I had my hip broken when I was 30. Glad I got that out of the way early so I'm good now.
Jan 26, 2024 17:59:45 #
I'm 65 and have 2 somewhat serious health issues. I keep active and the people I know that are in their 80s, that have sharp minds and remain active, are an inspiration to me. Happy Birthday!
Jan 26, 2024 18:18:38 #
My Dad use to say "When a person loses their wheels (legs/hip), their days are numbered."
He was right.
He was right.
Jan 26, 2024 18:45:59 #
Everyone's days are numbered. I'm just hoping for some fairly large numbers.
My broken hip was 54 years ago. I have lasted 15 years longer than my father, partly because I gave up smoking when my hip was broken. I smoked a pipe and since I was in traction for 6 weeks, the hot ashes kept falling on my chest so I gave it up. (Note that in the Good Old Days you could smoke in the hospital. Although those were certainly the Old Days, that doesn't mean they were actually Good).
My broken hip was 54 years ago. I have lasted 15 years longer than my father, partly because I gave up smoking when my hip was broken. I smoked a pipe and since I was in traction for 6 weeks, the hot ashes kept falling on my chest so I gave it up. (Note that in the Good Old Days you could smoke in the hospital. Although those were certainly the Old Days, that doesn't mean they were actually Good).
Jan 26, 2024 21:31:04 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
As for tobacco, when you watch an old B&W movie nearly everyone over the age of six is smoking. I have old Life magazines from the 1940s and they even have advertisements with doctors talking about how smoking is good for you. Just like breathing cyanide gas will get rid of that pesky headache.
When we were little kids my dad brought home a cigar a new father had given him. He gathered us kids around, lit it and gave all four of us a puff. Needless to say none of us have ever smoked.
When we were little kids my dad brought home a cigar a new father had given him. He gathered us kids around, lit it and gave all four of us a puff. Needless to say none of us have ever smoked.
Jan 26, 2024 22:05:50 #
In the’40s we would have guys who came to the schools occasionally and hand out 6-packs of cigarettes as samples. And anyone who had 15 cents could go to drug stores and buy a full pack.
Pretty much all through middle- and high school I carried a lighter and a knife in my pocket.
Pretty much all through middle- and high school I carried a lighter and a knife in my pocket.
Jan 27, 2024 05:40:23 #
I certainly won't ask my chérie...as she often believes the gras to be more green in the neighbor's prairie. 
Jan 27, 2024 08:40:59 #
This was meant to be a reply to Bikinkawboy Some of us do enjoy talking about photography, motorcycles (I have 2), guns (have a nice Sig Sauer P 380) fishing, etc
Jan 27, 2024 10:25:40 #
Picture Taker wrote:
I say " the good die young" I'm going on 92
I guess you're proving that statement true.
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