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So young. I'm disappointed I missed him this tour :/ Really hope this doesn't turn out to be drug related.

Out of curiosity, how old are you? I'm 45 and I don't consider 67 to be young ;-)

I'm in my early 30s, and I consider that to be pretty young. Part of it maybe that my great-grandpa & grandpa lived into their 80s. My grandpa was also physically active till the end, and he only passed away when he did because his body couldn't sustain the surgery.

My dad is in his early 60s, and doesn't plan on retiring/chilling before 70. I'm hoping he enjoys his 70s & 80s playing with his future grandchildren.

I just visited my grandmother who is 95 and is still going strong - absolutely no problems on a physical, mental, etc. level at all. Her father (who I knew) lived to be 105. I appear to have the good genes and have almost never been sick in my life so I will also probably live into my 90s at least. I still consider 67 to be old ;-)

67 isn't young, but it isn't an age where you should expect to die either. According to the Social Security tables [1], he should have lived another 17 years. At 45 you should expect 34 more.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Not be too persnickety, but your math doesn't add up.

67+17 = 84

45+34 = 79

Life expectancy does not go down by 1 year for each year that you age. One way to see this is to look at the fact that, in the US, male life expectancy is 34 years when one is 45 (total of 79 years); yet, the average 80-year-old male is clearly going to live to be more than 79 years old, as they have already survived all of the things that were going to kill them by the age of 79.

Useful data: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_08.pdf

The numbers came directly from the site I linked. No math on my part.

OP here. I actually expect to live at least another 50 years (all of my family on both sides are very long lived and I seem to have inherited the good genes). Hopefully I do end up beating the statistics ;-)

And for every one who beats the statistics, another must fall victim before their time. RIP Tom Petty.

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