November 15, 2006

Aging: These days, we're bigger, smarter, and living longer. Aging isn't just about your genes. It's also about things like diet. And as the cliche goes, You're only as old as you think you are. Take a quiz to determine your life expectancy. If you're unhappy with the result, get some tips from 100-year-olds on how to live longer.
posted by HawthorneWingo 17 years ago
  • Good FPP Hawthorne! ))
  • Says I'll live to 94. Not too shabby. But I had someone tell me t'other day I look like I'm 28. I think she was trying to butter me up ... I'm not sure how old I think I am, honestly.
  • I'll live to 87, which will take me to the year 2052. If they don't have flying cars by then I will be one very pissed-off old man.
  • 88. Mmh. Having a life time partner or being married could add 3 years to your life expectancy I think whoever made this test must be some relative...
  • 79. But I don't think I could take much more of this stupid circus.
  • I'm with you, Louis. The prospect of the 78 years they gave me is more than a little daunting.
  • 89, definitely long enough in my book...
  • I'm already up in years on this planet and don't wish it to last any longer than the body retains reasonable function. Thats just me, but the rest of you kids living until you're bald and your tits hang down to your knees is going to create a great problem for the kids you created before you werer bald, etc...
  • Early FPP on just the quiz.
  • I've got 32 years left, so they say. I guess the sex with twins thing just ain't gonna happen.
  • 85 is longer than I'd expect. I wonder how long it would claim if I was eating less meat and drinking less coffee.
  • i85 is longer than I'd expect. I wonder how long it would claim if I was eating less meat and drinking less coffee./i Forever is good, eh?
  • Hell, I'm surprised I made it this long. Thing about living to 100, you see all your friends & sibs die. Although grandkids gotta be great.
  • Good grief, 96 years. Wtf?
  • You're a liar, SB. Or you selected the 'I bathe daily in virgin's blood' choice.
  • I don't wanna take this test - I'm afraid it will tell me I should already be dead.
  • 94 for me too.
  • Hly Crud, Islander, those were my exact words! Question # 43: Do you have coins on your eyes? Y/N
  • Are you boring? Y/N YOU WILL BE 89!
  • 91 here. Can I sue the guy if it doesn't work out?
  • Popular opinion aside, people actually get happier as they get older. Don't knock it till ye've tried it, in other words.
  • 82. This is my parents fault for both dying of the big C.
  • 78. And they say it like it's a bad thing. A fair few years more than I was expecting (although a couple of hundred fewer than I'd like).
  • 84 years. Thats 54 more years of bi-weekly binge drinking, smoking, coffee chugging, red-meat devouring, non-exercising, drug-using, transit-riding and a mid-life crisis scheduled for 2018.
  • You're a liar, SB. I have 50 years to find you and punch you in the nose! :-)
  • Aaarrrrrrr.
  • In fifty years' time we'll be having wrinkly holographic MoFi meetups.
  • Make that forty, eh?
  • It's not the getting there that worries me, it's the going.
  • So the getting there's going the distance, and the going there's getting you going?