How long will you live?

[wellinghall]

This is a sort-of poll, but I don't have the skills / account to set one up properly.

How long do you think a man aged 65, and a woman aged 60, can expect to live? - based on current estimates of UK mortality rates.

I'd be interested in the sorts of answers I get, and in what the data tell me.

(Feel free to ignore if this is just too boring for words!)

Comments

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

Ten years. For some reason, it's always ten years. When you get to eighty, it becomes five years. Bizarre, but that's what I was taught in medical school (admittedly that was considerably longer than ten years ago, but...)