Yes you got it. The article the graphic is from was discovering that too. But the more interesting practical thing for us *boomers* is this fact that very few people live to be older than 85 even if on average people may be living a little longer. The ten year census shows that most of us are well dead before age 85 and only a very very small fraction of one percent actually live longer than that. Would indicated that there is going to be a lot of demographic natural die-off of the baby-boom in the next very few years coming up. Git ready.
-Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > Ooops, in my previous post (hasn't appeared yet) I said > the life-expectancy-at-birth figures were from 50-plus > years ago; actually this chart has life expectancy at > birth in 1990, so it's really just 23 years ago. But > the principle is correct: the older a population is, > the higher its average life expectancy compared to what > it was at birth. We'd need to find a chart from the > '40s-50s to know how much it's gone up since then. (And > of course there are also medical advances that account > for some of the rise.) > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > [graphic showing rising life expectancy] > > > > So regardless, most people are dead before 80 = make use of your time > > while you are here. > > > > > > > > > > > > > The book in manuscript is now online and can be read > > > at his wordpress site: > > > > > > http://lbshriver.wordpress.com/guru-dev-lectures/ > > > > > > "Rocks are Melting" > > > > > > http://lbshriver.wordpress.com/ > > > > > > The Everyday Teachings of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati > > > [Jagadguru Shankaracharya, Jyotir Math, Himalayas, 1941-53] > > > Compiled by Rameswar Tiwari > > > Edited and Introduction by L. B. Shriver > > > Translation Edited and Annotation by Cynthia A. Humes > > > > > >
