We're living longer
just released by the Office for National Statistics. A male child born in 2003 has an average life expectancy of 76.6 years. The figure for a female child is 81 years. The regional breakdown is as follows:
England M: 76.9 F: 81.2
Wales M: 76.3 F: 80.7
Scotland M: 74.2 F: 79.3
N Ireland M: 76.0 F: 80.8
Glasgow has the lowest life expectancy in the UK. And Kensington and Chelsea has the highest (men: 82; women 86).
If you're wondering what your own life expectancy is, and brave enough to speculate about it, you can try the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's health quiz.
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I have read several articles which point out that a good many Glaswegians have heart-unfriendly ways in food and drink. If they wish to change, that has to be by their own choice.
I just took that bbc life expectancy test. It says I died a year ago. Do you think I've filled it in wrongly?!
Gerard- I think you should do it again (and again and again until it says something different)....
My life expectancy is 82.8 years, according to this. But remember, this quiz doesn't take account of having any significant new health technology in the next 55 years, and I'm convinced that will do more than anything else to increase our general longevity.
I'm going to live until I'm 84.2 years old. Damn it. That means I've got over 50 years of this hole to suffer...
SG
I cannot tell when I will live. I think it will be until 55 years of age.
I have an elderly great aunt in her mid nineties. She is far from gaga and is still continent etc. However she is very frail, susbsists on glorified baby food and has very poor mobility. To be frank she doesn't have much of a life and no hope of it getting any better.
She lived into her early nineties independently which is very good of course but I feel that she really does not want to live like this (who would?)
We often say we want to live as long as possible and look forward to a vigourous and adventurous retirement but many people now are living in extreme old age and no matter how healthy you live when you reach your late eighties/nineties your body just wears out.
I don't know if I want to live the half-life my poor old aunt has to llok forward to.
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