Hey Guys
Read in the Sunday Papers about www.longtolive.com . It's a web site which asked you a few lifestyle questions and then comes back with the predicted date of your death (only for fun now, only for fun), based on insurance acturial tables etc. I did it and was horrified to see that I would live till I was 97. Changed my alcohol consumption from "often" to "until inebriated" (!!!!) and still managed 94. I'm seriously thinking of entering that I frequently have unprotected sex and share needles with other drug users just to bring it down a bit !!!
Has anyone else had a go ?
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Amazing!
Anyone else heard this one? Surely can't be true! If it is, the 70-mile-a-weekers will hit treble figures age-wise...
If so I would like to invite you to my funeral.
I will leave 20 quid behind the bar and after that you can buy your own.
PS ,I am not tight,I have placed it in an index linked unit trust.
I'd love to come but I think I'll have croaked in 2057 !
Sorry - have a good one !
index linked??
the way the stock market is going it will only be worth 16 quid by the time the pubs open tomorrow.
I bet your "Death age" is low because you're so young (relatively!) and you're being influenced by all those students you live amongst. When I was a student I bet mine would have been low too, I trashed my body. Now that's it's starting to crease and crumble I'm treating it with respect - but I really don't fancy 97 - the way the world markets are going I think I've probably only got enough pension for one year of retirement !
I'd like to take you up on your invitation as I will have another 2 years to go then!!!
It seems to think I'll make 90. I can't be drinking enough.....
By 2058 £20 will probably get a half and several straws!
There's just no pleasing some people it's just take take take!
The funny thing is, I'm not at all 'studenty' in terms of getting blottered in the pub every evening, and eating crap food. Still, the thesis stress is killing me slowly every day.
I think it must have been the more devious things, but I can't remember - not a good sign!
Off to try the site now.
Does everyone have the potential to live to101??
If i give up drinking frequently, i only last another year
Pass the gin
I'm going to have a big party on Saturday September 4th, the day before I die - you're all invited - those of you still with us!
Have you also seen www.realage.com. This one will cheer up you fit people out there. It takes a bit longer but it is really interesting.
My real age is 23.
Beth
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Hey, If I die before I'm 92, can I sue?
Barkles, I'd be pretty happy to die a bit earlier than 94. Another 54 years on this planet? It seems surreal.
Not that I'm obsessed or anything but I've just calculated my real age and I'm 5.3 years younger than my calendar age.
I think I feel a large glass of white wine coming on...
Im 4 years younger tha my real age, even allowing for more than 2 drinks a day and sun exposure and sleep deprivation and a crap diet
Does someone from RW write that website?
Answers on a postcard...
SY3
The thought occured as I read through the thread, in general do runners actually think or care about life expectancy all that much ? Lots of non-runners I know are overly-obsessed with age/life expectancy/personal vanity and other countless unknowns, and (sweeping generalisation) seem to think there should be some kind of instant payback as soon as they have become a member of their local gym!
Hey, give me a life in the fast lane (a sub 3hrs PB after 18 years of trying would be fantastic) and the rest is que sera, sera.
As with Sythree, haven't visited the site in question and frankly, who gives a flyer?
Rant off.
On consideration if I am now 47 now but currently running 25 miles a week but previously ran regularly 80 miles per week but now stick to a far healthier diet during the week but tend to drink more alcohol at the weekend than I used to, but then again my quality of sleep is so much better ???
So, anyway, back to the point, are runners more/less obsessed about life expectancy ?