Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Why AARP Dues Eventually Bankrupt Me

From the MSN Life Expectancy Calculator:

If you continue maintaining healthy habits, you'll want to plan for a maximum life expectancy of 101 years or more.

Your "ideal" weight for maximum longevity is: 127 lbs.

The three biggest positive factors that you have going for you are:
1. Age
2. Gender
3. Age of grandparents

The one biggest negative factor that you have going for you is:
1. Family health

6 comments:

Donald said...

The question no one asks is, "Would you want to live that long?"

Imagine 30 or more years of arthritis, poor vision, chronic illness, and all the other unpleasantries associated with growing old.

Maybe dying at 90 wouldn't be too bad, all things considered.

Black Knight said...

The 3 biggest factors in my opinion are:
1) a very good retirement with a very good pension;
2) a lovely wife;
3) don't piss off the black knight.

Garou said...

Yeah, I've seen that calculator before - right now, it gives me a total of 88 years, at best. Of course, I am fighting the big negatives of "gender" and "grandparents who died at the early age of 60-79". I've learned to ignore such things - especially when I figured out that, on some calculators, if I do everything wrong, it only cuts 2-3 years off the total I earn by doing everything right.

Anyone else notice, by the way, that you would actually lose points if your grandparents all died at age 79 in a freak accident while running a road race?

susie said...

Hmmm, I was 102. And I *do* want to live that long if I'm healthy:)

jeff said...

how bad does this suck?

The one biggest negative factor that you have going for you is:
1. Gender

i can't change that without serious surgery!

Rae said...

I ended up with 102! I'll have quite the blog by then!