Grim statistics on retirement age and life expectancy

[mad-moon]

talk about stating the obvious..sheesh...why has the age for retirement increased...The powers that be are not daft...they know fine well that being forced to work well into your 60's is going to have a huge negative impact on the human body, result, it'll kill you. Now they don't have to take care of you..simple.

I'm just doing what they are doing...stating the bloody obvious...

[Sherwood]

At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, LEB has increased and continues to do so. We now die slowly from chronic expensive to manage health problems. Furthermore, past investments in retirement have been too low for most people to retire comfortably.

Don't get me started on these statistics. The conclusions, such as are implied not stated are wrong and for many reasons!

talk about stating the obvious..sheesh...why has the age for retirement increased...The powers that be are not daft...they know fine well that being forced to work well into your 60's is going to have a huge negative impact on the human body, result, it'll kill you. Now they don't have to take care of you..simple.

I'm just doing what they are doing...stating the bloody obvious...

[dave2010]

At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, LEB has increased and continues to do so. We now die slowly from chronic expensive to manage health problems. Furthermore, past investments in retirement have been too low for most people to retire comfortably.

LEB =?? Life Expectancy ***?? What does the B stand for, or have I got this completely wrong?

[Sherwood]

Yes. At birth. Each year, statistically, we have a probability of living at least one more year. If you look at a LIFE TABLE which plots these probabilities it is amazing how high the probability of surviving another year, even in your 80s!

LEB =?? Life Expectancy ***?? What does the B stand for, or have I got this completely wrong?

[walpurgis]

If you look at a LIFE TABLE which plots these probabilities it is amazing how high the probability of surviving another year, even in your 80s!

Or keeling over within the next ten minutes.

[Sherwood]

Or keeling over within the next ten minutes.

As I said. The complete reverse. If you get to 84 you will probably get to 85

[dave2010]

As I said. The complete reverse. If you get to 84 you will probably get to 85

There's the old joke

"Who wants to live to be 95?"

"A 94 year old".

I think Segovia wrote a short passage in his latter years, asking God to forgive him for all the mistakes he made while playing, and to let him have just one more year (at least?) to perfect his technique.

[Jimbo]

At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, LEB has increased and continues to do so. We now die slowly from chronic expensive to manage health problems. Furthermore, past investments in retirement have been too low for most people to retire comfortably.

Don't get me started on these statistics. The conclusions, such as are implied not stated are wrong and for many reasons!

Just depends on which statistics your use/read and how these statistics are calculated/implemented.

[Sherwood]

Just depends on which statistics your use/read and how these statistics are calculated/implemented.

No. There is statistical method to establish causality and for dealing with "confounding variables"!

[mikmas]

The usual clickbait for 'early retirement' pension schemes. Assumed causality does not a fact make

If you believe this kind of BS you probably will die early -- from the induced neurotic stress.