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pre-DrChad t1_j1fsxzm wrote

You can’t use a whole country’s life expectancy to project your own. 70% of the US is overweight or obese. Decent amount smoke, do drugs, dont take vaccines, don’t take care of their health at all.

Family history of longevity (genetics) also matters a lot.

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Watcher_By_Night t1_j1gysey wrote

>rt his new ventu

Oh, it's well documented WHY we're dying younger. If I live to 77 I'd be amazed. When my dad died at 64, I had just turned 22 and had every reason to believe I'd live longer than average person. The world has beaten me down quite a bit since then (18 yrs ago).

It's mostly avoidable issues. For me and our society as a whole, but as shit falls apart more, we age faster, and have less to look forward to.

I was on track to retire very comfy as a multimillionaire by 60. Now i have no doubt I'll work until death (best case scenario) so i can leave a few pennies for my daughter, or, I'll die penniless as a ward of the state in one those hellish, smelly, pits we throw our old and dying into. We have too many old people and not enough young people and that's only going to worsen.

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