75 years of nation-wide life expectancy is also likely to include early deaths due to accidents, cancer and such. People who die of "old age" typically do later than 75.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 4 months ago

When people talks about life expectancy 99.99% of the time they mean life expectancy at birth, at every year the life expectancy change. Using this life table someone with 61 years, have a life expectancy of 19.7 years, that means he's expected to live until he's 80.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yep, and that was true even going all the way back through history. People weren't routinely dying in their 30s or whatever before modern medicine; it's just that a lot more of them were dying in infancy/early childhood and that brought down the average. (That's the situation anti-vaxxers are trying to go back to, BTW.)

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

I would say it’s appropriate to loop cancer deaths into the “old age” bucket – DNA getting old and making mistakes replicating seems relevant.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gaben is not exactly an inspiring portrait of health...

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

The latest pictures of him look good, though. The man has definitely lost some weight.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 6 points 4 months ago

Plus Gaben has been doing some serious work on his health recently so the fat part no longer applies.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Fit billionaires do. What happens to gaben's heart and arteries are anyone's guess. He is getting healthier but you can't undo damage completely.