How long are we going to live?

@shomomo (850)
Israel
February 9, 2007 8:36pm CST
By statistics, If someone is 20 right now, how many years (by average) is he going to live?
5 responses
@mssnow (9484)
• United States
10 Feb 07
With the way medicine is going a 20 year old may live well into their 100's . By the time they get close to that age, there might even be a medicine they can drink that will make them live a lot longer. No one knows what will happen in the future.
@shomomo (850)
• Israel
10 Feb 07
Don't forget that we are starting to see new viruses and bacterias that are adapting immunity for our medications and the process of finding new ones is getting harder and harder so you don't really know who will win this "war".
@shomomo (850)
• Israel
10 Feb 07
Don't forget that we are starting to see new viruses and bacterias that are adapting immunity for our medications and the process of finding new ones is getting harder and harder so you don't really know who will win this "war".
@Eisenherz (2908)
• Portugal
10 Feb 07
Well, I am 20 now and I believe that if I improve my life a bit more in little things that make part of daily life, such as being more careful with what I eat and exercising more, I'm hoping to reach at least 60 years of age.
@GardenGerty (157873)
• United States
10 Feb 07
That is going to vary from country to country. I believe in the US we are talking in the neighborhood of 76 years. Not the longest lived nation, but not too short, either. I personally plan to live to be 100, and I have enough genetic factors on my side that I will probably do it, barring a horrible accident.
@macky7 (317)
• Philippines
10 Feb 07
you can never really know. it depends in his lifestyle. if a person has illnessess or if a 20year old is a smoker then he might get lung diseases and will not live long. and also we never know what happens tomorrow, maybe there could be an accident or something.
• Malaysia
10 Feb 07
I don't have a specific answer to this question, but research carried out says that women tend to life longer then men 10 or 20 years, and an average man will die at the age of 60. I forgot from where i read that, as I can't recall it myself.