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How to Estimate Life Expectancy

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You can estimate your life expectancy on the following websites.

www.livingto100.com 10 – 15 min
gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html 10 – 15 min
www.nmfn.com/tn/learnctr--lifeevents--longevity 5 – 10 min
www.deathforecast.com 5 – 10 min
read.nwsource.com/lifeexpectancycalculator/index.cfm 5 – 10 min
www.fastfa.com/life.jsp 5 – 10 min

It will take about 5 to 15 minutes to answer the questions on one of these sites. Please keep in mind that the result you get from these questionnaires, that is, your life expectancy, is only an estimate of the number of years you may live. None of these sites offer a guarantee based on hard science that you will actually reach the age they suggest. They do not use hard science; instead, they make guesses based on some personal data you supply them.

If you want to take the time, you can answer the questions to a few or all of these questionnaires and take an average of all results. Perhaps that kind of averaging will give you a better estimate than any one site alone can give. In any case, I think it is better to estimate your life expectancy on sites like these than to use some average number that applies to the broad population and is not at all based on your own lifestyle or health history. Overall, it is probably best to work with a life expectancy that better reflects your individual circumstances, so go ahead and give some of these a try.

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