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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2023, 10:15:32 PM

Title: Nasty, British, and short
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2023, 10:15:32 PM: Interesting stuff on life expectancy in the UK in the last ten years

https://archive.vn/eEh5i
Title: Re: Nasty, British, and short
Post by: Sriram on March 10, 2023, 04:41:56 AM: 81 years is good. The average life expectancy is bound to flatten out some time I guess.

What do they expect? That the average life expectancy should keep rising into the 100's and beyond? And....what for? Dying is a reality. Merely extending old age further and further does not add any value either to the individual or to society.
Title: Re: Nasty, British, and short
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 10, 2023, 07:32:35 AM: Quote from: Sriram on March 10, 2023, 04:41:56 AM

81 years is good. The average life expectancy is bound to flatten out some time I guess.

What do they expect? That the average life expectancy should keep rising into the 100's and beyond? And....what for? Dying is a reality. Merely extending old age further and further does not add any value either to the individual or to society.
The question raised in the article is whether the UK is performing badly here because of govt policies. I'm not entirely sure it's the case as I think it looks to be performing similarly to Germany. Indeed as mentioned but not looked at in detail in the article the US is going down at a surprising rate.

As to the aims of life expectancy, while it's possible to accept in the long run we are all dead, the extensions to life expectancy we have seen over the last 150 years or so are not about some grand plan to push the life expectancy figure up but about solving issues such as starvation and specific diseases.
Title: Re: Nasty, British, and short
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on March 10, 2023, 10:04:39 AM: Quote from: Sriram on March 10, 2023, 04:41:56 AM

81 years is good. The average life expectancy is bound to flatten out some time I guess.

What do they expect? That the average life expectancy should keep rising into the 100's and beyond? And....what for? Dying is a reality. Merely extending old age further and further does not add any value either to the individual or to society.
But in Hinduism you get to pop up again and again!

That's not the belief in Britain where the belief is either death and ''it's sting'' or death and ''that's it.''
Title: Re: Nasty, British, and short
Post by: Dicky Underpants on March 10, 2023, 10:16:04 AM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2023, 10:15:32 PM
Interesting stuff on life expectancy in the UK in the last ten years

https://archive.vn/eEh5i
When I read the title, I thought you must be referring to Mark Francois.
Title: Re: Nasty, British, and short
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on March 10, 2023, 10:17:41 AM: Quote from: Dicky Underpants on March 10, 2023, 10:16:04 AM
When I read the title, I thought you must be referring to Mark Francois.
I thought it was Sunak. He's a micromanager.