<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Of course it’s overstating, I’m a marketer, bullshit is what I do. But it’s not that big an overstatement. I don’t have a similar graph for much earlier, but take a look at page two of this census bureau report, <a href="https://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p25-1138.pdf" class="">https://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p25-1138.pdf</a> note the shape of the curve and the progression through 2050. And then realize that the biggest advances in projected lifespan happened between 1900 and 1980. The curve flattened since then. <a href="https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html" class="">https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On an individual basis what you are saying may have always been true—people who made it to 65 passed through the communicable disease and accident phase unscathed. But for the population as a whole that wasn’t true. Life expectancy at age 65 started increasing rapidly in 1970 for males and 1940 for females. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And of course, this list is self-selected. Anyone who is dead is not here. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Nov 1, 2015, at 9:48 PM, Randall <<a href="mailto:TR3driver@ca.rr.com" class="">TR3driver@ca.rr.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The biggest problem with retirement is that we were all <br class="">supposed to die at 62.7.That was the average life expectancy <br class="">in 1935 when social security started. <br class=""></blockquote><br class="">"All supposed to die" is overstating the case, IMO. One of the main reasons life expectancy at birth was lower back then was<br class="">because so many people died before joining the workforce. Infant and even teen mortality was much higher then, due to lack of<br class="">things like antibiotics and vaccines. Even in 1930, someone who had lived to age 65 had a better than 50/50 chance of making it to<br class="">75.<br class=""><br class="">But 'average life expectancy' has never meant that we are "all supposed to die" by any age. "The world's oldest man" that died a<br class="">few months back was already 32 in 1935!<br class=""><br class="">And I'll bet there are quite a few on this list that were born before 1935. <br class=""><g><br class=""><br class="">Randall<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class=""><a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" class="">fot@autox.team.net</a><br class=""><br class="">http://www.fot-racing.com<br class=""><br class="">Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html<br class="">Archive: http://www.team.net/archive<br class="">Forums: http://www.team.net/forums<br class="">Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/bill@ponostyle.com<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>