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Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

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In Your Poetic Mind

0 posted 2005-03-21 11:35 PM

http://www.agingresearch.org/calculator/
Kinda interesting, of course no test is 100% true but thought it might be fun to take.....?

my results were 89.6

~~*~~
I'm Standing on a bridge
I'm waitin in the dark
I thought that you'd be here by now
Theres nothing but the rain
~~**~~

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2005-03-21 11:49 PM

I apparently have six years left to live.

It's okay though.

The last time I took a test like this, the results relayed the not-so-reassuring notion that I should have been dead four years ago.

PhaerieChild
Senior Member

since 1999-08-30

Posts 1787
Aloha, Oregon

2 posted 2005-03-22 12:40 PM

It says I'm gonna live to the ripe old age of 88.6. By that time, I'll probably tired of it anyway LOL.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

3 posted 2005-03-22 02:31 AM

87.7

hmmm interesting

and i knew in the crystalline knowledge of you
~Buckingham/Nicks

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

4 posted 2005-03-22 03:05 AM

Your calculated health span is 104.8 years. Below, please find the reasoning behind the questions, which you answered that made your score less than it should be

Good gravy! I have no intention of sticking around that long! LOL, no way!

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

5 posted 2005-03-22 06:09 AM

Your calculated health span is 64.6 years.

That's lovely.

That is exactly one more lifetime than I have already lived. (God help me)

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2005-03-22 06:29 AM

87.5

But I hope for a wee bit longer...

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (03-22-2005 10:24 AM).]

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

7 posted 2005-03-22 09:48 AM

Your calculated health span is 107.2 years.

help....geezzzz..I was expecting to get this life over with much sooner than that

M ( and that was without any improvements I am making in my life!!!)

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

8 posted 2005-03-22 10:01 AM

90 ??!!!! Oh gawd....that old with persistent writer's block.

Alicat
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since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

9 posted 2005-03-22 10:13 AM

87.7, though some of the questions did not have enough options. *chuckle* I'm single, for example, but have lived with my SO for 5 years. AZ don't do the commonlaw thingy. And that barbeque questions.....foil on a grill? I likes charbroiling over briquettes and old wood with at least 13 hour marinated meats, then slow cooked until done. Done to me and my SO is 'blackened'...not just charred to a cinder, no, but blackened. Lightly charred, with the dark coloring from concoctions and marinades. With crunchy bits.

Anyhow, it's about where I thought I'd be, barring outside accidents/incidents. Nana and Grandma both died in their early 80's, both Grandpas in their late 80's. Mom and Dad are still going strong, though I really wouldn't be surprised if Dad didn't make 80. He'll be 75 this year, has chronic bronchitis, and lives in a damp environment (coastal Texas). He'll never move though. His tax clients are all there. *chuckle*

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

10 posted 2005-03-22 10:14 AM

87.7 years

Alicat
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since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

11 posted 2005-03-22 10:25 AM

Well, looks like a couple of us could get together, converge on some public spot, and natter on about the 'storm of suchandsuch', 'youth don't know nuthin' and 'it used to be brighter' while holding court in our rockers and wheelchairs.

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

12 posted 2005-03-22 10:26 AM

I agree. Not enough options. My grandmother made it to 92...smoked and drank socially most of her life from the time she could get away with it. I've also heard tell that some things skip generations...like longevity. So I'm opting to go my grandmother's route, or better...except that I don't, and never have, taken up smoking.

LOL...Maybe it's my otherwise good health that will kill me... because despite what some people say, I know I'm not near ornery enough to live forever!

skyshine

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since 2002-02-07

Posts 3058
Beneath the northern stars

13 posted 2005-03-22 01:42 PM

78.1 years--and I thought I was healthy!! lol

~sky

They way you live your life is up to you, but dying is NOT an option!!

Cloud 9
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since 2004-11-05

Posts 980
Ca

14 posted 2005-03-22 02:20 PM

78.9

Sudhir Iyer
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since 2000-04-26

Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

15 posted 2005-03-22 02:34 PM

86.2 .... that is many years more than the life time of an average Indian Male... hmmm

Alicia
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since 2002-03-22

Posts 279

16 posted 2005-03-22 02:35 PM

111.4 - go figure...

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

17 posted 2005-03-22 03:01 PM

Sheesh. I'd better clean up my act.

Or make out a will.

But then, on the bright side, a decade has been added to my life expectancy since last year, so I must be improving, huh?

(Oh LIE to me.)

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

18 posted 2005-03-22 03:16 PM

Someone needs to calibrate the calculator for this.

I am serious.

I smoke. I never use sunscreen and my family history is horrible...

I am going to live till the age of 92.5??

will I be on oxygen, in a diaper, with tremors, suffering from dementia and ate up with skin cancer??????

this has to be wrong....

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

Ringo

Member Elite

since 2003-02-20

Posts 3684
Saluting with misty eyes

19 posted 2005-03-22 04:07 PM

69.5 for me.
I guess I'm hosed.
lol

In the wooden chair
Beside my window
I wear a face born in the falling rain

Local Parasite

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since 2001-11-05

Posts 2527
Transylconia, Winnipeg

20 posted 2005-03-22 04:22 PM

76.1 years for me.

Did anyone else notice that the test calculates a difference of 12 points based on whether or not you floss daily? Yikes!! I'm going to go floss right now!

"God becomes as we are that we may be as he is." ~William Blake

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

21 posted 2005-03-22 04:47 PM

68? i still have that long? that's cruel.

actually I think i've been clinically dead for months now.

Alicat
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since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

22 posted 2005-03-22 04:49 PM

That question got me as well. I really can't floss, due to a schoolyard accident when I was tripped during a game of Chase and ended up munching the hard asphalt under a jungle gym in 3rd grade. That really screwed up my teeth, and we could never afford braces, just capping broken teeth. Even now, I go through toothbrushes like crazy and shred floss. Ever get a piece of floss stuck between two compacted and angled teeth? Not pleasant, lemme tell ya, and a right bugger to get out.

Larry C

Member Patricius

since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

23 posted 2005-03-22 05:51 PM

Said I was fat but I'd live to be 98.1 years old! Good thing I enjoy life. But I think I better find some training wheels for my motorcycle because it's too heavy for a really old man to keep upright. So I might live long enough to get a book published afterall.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Local Rebel
Member Ascendant

since 1999-12-21

Posts 5767
Southern Abstentia

24 posted 2005-03-22 05:52 PM

You will live to be 147.2 years old, but why the hell would you want to? Don't you ever have any fun? Get out of that hyperbaric chamber and live a little bit.

80.2 years actually... plenty long enough to do what I gotta do

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

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Between the Lines

25 posted 2005-03-22 09:13 PM

LR...funny guy you are

~laughing~
M

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

26 posted 2005-03-22 09:19 PM

Good God, I will be the first one to go!  (Your calculated health span is 64.6 years.)

Sheesh, yea and that test called me obese tyvm . . . don't feel so bad, Bri . . .
I think my teeth are presently falling out and Raph?  (ok I actually laughed at that, that's how messed up in the head I am)

K?  I guess I will see you there?

You, me, Raph and Brad . . .

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

27 posted 2005-03-22 11:20 PM

nah you wont be, at the current rate i'm at, i was dead 2 years ago. i'll save you guys a seat

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

28 posted 2005-03-23 07:07 AM

Well then, you and Karen are modern miracles of Science!

(all of you have warped me so)

Please, I want a seat on the end.

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

29 posted 2005-03-23 10:25 AM

y'all better say your goodbyes now!

egowhores.com - really love yourself.

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

30 posted 2005-03-23 01:52 PM

"Well then, you and Karen are modern miracles of Science!"

nodding...it's a very delicate chemical balance!

saved_by_grace
Member

since 2005-01-08

Posts 332
In the arms of God...

31 posted 2005-03-23 09:14 PM

Your calculated health span is 69.4 years.

MAN....I didn't want to live to be that old.

I would much rather just get it over with...

...maybe I should stop wearing my seatbelt, wonder if that would help? -- Becka

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

32 posted 2005-03-23 10:24 PM

(all of you have warped me so)

sure..like you needed encouragemenet

lmao @ k "nodding...it's a very delicate chemical balance!"

i just think my body is so shocked at how i've treated it, it simply doesn't know how to react yet

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

33 posted 2005-03-24 06:43 AM

um . . . I was perfectly normal before I came here tyvm. *laughing*

Titia Geertman
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since 2001-05-07

Posts 5182
Netherlands

34 posted 2005-03-24 08:40 PM

First it was 91,7 and then I tried one without the smoking and it was 95,7 and I decided to keep enjoying my cigarettes, because I don't drink coffee, don't drink tea, hardly drink any alcohol, hardly eat any sweets. I'm entitled to enjoy at least one bad habbit, LOL

Titia

Like scattered leaves...my words will flow

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

35 posted 2005-03-25 07:17 PM

The good news is... I should be picking out what clothes I'd like to be laid out in. *S* The bad news is... I hope they're right! *S*

sweetcollege_girl
Senior Member

since 1999-12-03

Posts 872
just about where I want to be

36 posted 2005-03-27 08:36 PM

95.5..hm..not bad!

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