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squirell nutkin · 03-07-2010, 10:02 AM

I was looking at an actuarial table of life expectancy once and the funny thing is, the longer you live, the longer you are likely to live.
e.g. at birth to the first year you have an avg life expectancy of something like 65 yrs. Make it to age one and your LE jumps to something like 71. With each passing year yourLE grows slightly. Pass certain milestones like making it through the shoals of the sudden heart attack at 40-60 and you see another small leap in LE.

I wish I had a copy of it. Lawyers and ins companies use them in calculating judgements.

03-07-2010, 10:02 AM	#11
squirell nutkin has a second hand user title Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: in a Nut House Posts: 2,017	I was looking at an actuarial table of life expectancy once and the funny thing is, the longer you live, the longer you are likely to live. e.g. at birth to the first year you have an avg life expectancy of something like 65 yrs. Make it to age one and your LE jumps to something like 71. With each passing year yourLE grows slightly. Pass certain milestones like making it through the shoals of the sudden heart attack at 40-60 and you see another small leap in LE. I wish I had a copy of it. Lawyers and ins companies use them in calculating judgements. __________________ And now I'm finished posting.