The recent case of 27 year old British Reality Television star Jade Goody being diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer (http://www.stuff.co.nz/4853891a1860.html) demonstrates how ridiculous this poll is. Sure we might all "expect" to live to be a 100, or maybe upload our brains onto the internet and then live forever, or at least until the heat death of the universe, but somehow Nature ends up having other plans. So of course it is prudent to plan for the future in terms of things like retirement savings, but beyond that, we should not expect anything other than the present. The best laid plans of mice and men, and all that.