The BBC calculates your life expectancy!

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How long are you going to live?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to pop my clogs at 79, apparently.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

According to this survey, I am going to die at 10.30pm on 17th March 2026. Lets all have a FAP to celebrate my demise!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going at 78. That's a good 40 years more than I expected.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

count me out, matt dc!! :(

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

88.4 so I'm just about halfway thesedays.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

86.2 years! So long, suckas!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

85.8 years. Ha -- I should be so lucky. And I smoke and everything.

― Charles Hatcher (musenheddo), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

87.6. i find that unlikely

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

84.8! :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

87.2

isn't the average life expectancy around 78 or so?

maybe they are taking into account the miraculous all-healing medicine of the 21st century (soon available in stores)

― j c (j c), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

92! Fucking hell.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

90.

yeah right.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

wow i'm gonna live to 83.9 years! I'm living til 2063!!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I gonna be the longest-lived ILXor?

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

~~not if we can help it~~Yes!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

83.8 tho I suspect it would be much less if I put my pre 2004 drinking levels down.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

87.4 - and that's without taking selenium. This will not happen; not even an anagram of these numbers. In reality I will be lucky to reach 50.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

82-point-something.
ha ha.

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

88.4, mind you they didn't ask "Are you a penguin who likes to jump off tall glaciers?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

87 years! I'm as surprised as you are.

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I gave up smoking a week ago -- do I have to tell the BBC's computer this salient fact?

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

88.8 years. I'm gonna be around for a while. Sorry, everyone!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

92.8.

and that's without the vitamins, which might be contained in my fancy multi-vitamin. if i change that, i get up to 93.8.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

you lot (Dom excepted) are obv far more healthy than me!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

32.6 - it mentioned something about a run-in with a bus¡

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

79.8 years seems plenty long to me.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

if i exercise more and let less fried food i can slap another 4 years on there, but, really, fuck that noise.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

87.4 - I'm overweight right now and I drink too much and get too stressed out.

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

it just says how long you'll be breathing for. It doesn't say how many years you'll spend peeing yourself and cursing the mailbox for stealing your fiancée.

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm only going to make it to 94.2, and that's if I stay away from temptation. Pass the bottles of Bolly, platters of barbecue ribs/chicken and an oversexed intellectual, then.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Rar!

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

90.6

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

83.2 years

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

82.2 years. Nice, if unrealistic. I shall live ever.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloody thing must be broken. I swear this is what it calculated:

Your life expectancy is -3.2 years

So I died just over 3 years ago! I must be a ghost! Wicked.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

no, you're reading it wrong, if your life expectancy is -3.2, that means you died 3.2 years before YOU WERE BORN!!!
You were born a ghost!

― Huck Hurts (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

With a BMI of 40 and answering all the questions 'wrong', you can get it down to 62.6. Otherwise, 81.8. May 26, 2050. That's one World Cup opening ceremony I'll just miss, then.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

OOPS! I fogot to click the male/female button. I guess that means trannies have negative life expectancies! 80.8.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, I thought I was doing well at 80.8 - you lot must be super-health freaks or something!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Gotta remember to stop eating red meat and shooting junk....

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

78.2. Depression and other mental illness is not noted, and i expect to die v. much before that, due to these two factors.

― anthony, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

83.6!
That mean's I'm going down, July 28th, 2061-style -- the 69th anniversary of the release of "What's the 411?", and the 116th anniversary of the birth of Jim Davis.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

90.8 years! Probably due to my BMI of 20.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

My BMI is like 27.11 though. I'm fat and I'm still gonna out live you fuckers.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but you'll be on ILX all alone!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"How much alcohol to you drink a day?
More than a pint of beer, or 2 glasses of wine/mixed drinks, a day? A moderate amount of alcohol - less than a pint of beer or less than 2 glasses of wine - a day? "

i love that this subtly implies that everyone drinks.

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

81.1! yikes.

stop smoking, leave L.A., lay off fried foods, decrease stress. let's see how many years I can add...

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

89.6 including smoking and L.A.!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

80.6 years, but this test is a bit unfair--my parents are in their 40s, how the fuck am I to know if they live past the age of 75 without assistance??! Apparently if you are born to young parents you lose about 10 years of your life. I can't even answer if my grandparents live to be 90--neither of my living grandparents are even close!

― Allyzay, Monday, 26 January 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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You are obviously having more fun than I am!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

92 according to the BBC. This is about when my great-grandmother died and my grandmother is still healthy at 79 so sounds about right. Aren't there some stats about men with wives living longer, too? I'm not sure if it applies to women as well though, quite possibly the opposite is true...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel OTM.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it make a difference if you're male or female. I'm devising a plan based on this highly scientific research to make me live longer... if an operation is needed then so be it

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Question mark AWOL, if you see it tell it it's needed in my post.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

86.4! Suits me.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

87. Improbable.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you might make it that far but be a hideous mess for the last 20 years??

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

86.2. Woo!

― alix (alix), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

27.6

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

79.4

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

92.6

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

94.7

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

91.4!

I've got 6 months more! I'll spend them in bed, smoking and eating lots of cakes.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

76 apparently. The body-mass index thing claims I'm overweight, which I don't go along with - I have almost no body fat. But my diet is lousy, which means I'm not really arguing with the results.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

88.2

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Your life expectancy is 97.4 years

!!!!

The parent thing is worded poorly 'cause my mom isn't 75 (but will most likely live that long) while my dad died a LONNNNNG time before that age.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I turned 30 today and am happy about it, but am happier (in a weird way) now knowing that I'll live for 61.8 more years! Holy crap. That is a lot of years.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, we should have also posting how many years we have left. I want to know who's going to be around to talk about music with me on ILM in 50 years :)

I've got 62 years left, so you'll all be hearing about Plastikman and Drugstore for a while!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This is jacked: I was forced to answer nearly every question in the less-healthy way, and yet I'm still projected to live to 82! The only thing I have going for me is a reasonable body mass index, which no machine can understand is currently a result of malnutrition.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

My bmi is less than 20, I feel really unhealthy though.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I only have 31 years left to me - that must be by far the least here.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Post faster!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

89 on the bbc, 97 (!) on the other one, so i've got another 62 or 70 years, dying in 2067 or 2075. christ, either way i am not even a third of the way through yet. wtf is with the teeth-flossing questions, please?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:17 (twenty years ago)

80.8 on the BBC. I didn't answer the question about how I grill my chicken and fish as I'm a veggie... And I have no idea if my parents will die before they're 75, as they're both in their late fifties.

I don't floss my teeth, maybe that's what'll kill me early. Apart from the binge drinking and living in a city, I can't see why this is so low compared to everyone else.

Am going to give comedy answers now and see how low I can get it to go.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, 66.6 years for an obese chain-smoking urbanite with stress problems who drinks too much and loves bacon.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

87.6 - I should cut down on the coffee or switch to Green Tea. And learn to HANDLE MY STRESS!!!!

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

90.6? WTF?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Teeth flossing questions - gum disease is linked to heart disease. I saw it on Oprah.

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

this is unscientific

― $!@$!$, Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

84 that'll do. Much longer than that and I'll get bored. 62 years to go

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

85.4 years -- on the original

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Into my nineties? Ace. That deserves a bunch of wine

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

There were no questions about whether or not I will be hit by a big bus:-(

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

"Behold, the death clock! Simply jam your finger in the hole and this readout tells you exactly how long you have left to live."

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Christ, we're all going to live in a nursing home. 85.8 years.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

hey zora, thanks for the teethflossing answer. as of last week i have started flossing my teeth!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was that the low level drain on the immune system from constant irritation of gums lead to general poor health.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Blimey! I could die any second n-

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

88.6 If I lose 1.17 pounds and exercise more I can up that. Most women in my family live into their 90s.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was that the low level drain on the immune system from constant irritation of gums lead to general poor health.

oh no! so i shouldn't floss my teeth? i brush them like a mofo though, go through a toothbrush every few weeks... i heard that's bad but they don't feel clean if i brush them too softly, it's like i've just shown them the brush then whipped it away.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

No, you should floss your teeth! It is the rotting food which irritates gums, not the flossing!

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Hey, James Ward, did I email you at the BBC yesterday?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Was it about an Eastenders extension? If so, then yes.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

oh, ok cool. i didn't find any horrific gunk anywhere in there so maybe i am safe *shivers*

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap! Isn't that a bit weird? I mean, there are probably more than a couple of James Wards around.

Oddly, it was your handwriting that made me think it might actually be you. I don't think I thanked you for sending over the contract - thank you very much!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

88.4 years
I think my diet and lack of exercise will probably cancel out the benefits of longevity in the family history. (Maternal grandmother will be 110 in July.)

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Hold on, how did my handwriting give me away? The internet isn't handwritten!

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

On the reply envelope sent with the agreement, you had written your name and room number, and I noticed that the handwriting was unusually small but well-formed. It was, naturally, just a small step between that and thinking that you had just the kind of handwriting that an ILXor might have!

(I know it's ridiculous, but I really did notice it)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Blimey. Well done Sherlock.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

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