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Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Re: Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Post by eli_gottlieb »

MarkTee wrote: post #26
eli_gottlieb wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean their actions like having a living will that says to let them die in some circumstances, or outright filing "right to die" lawsuits? Or their attempts at suicide, which come at a rate well above those of the general population? Those actions?

If they truly wished that they'd died younger, then they'd already be dead.

Are you honestly claiming an unsuccessful suicide attempt is an example of wanting to live? That's getting near "revealed rational preferences" in its level of sheer bullshit.

Re: Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Post by raghuinc »

beerglass wrote: post #13
konspence wrote: post #7

"If your child was born in the last couple of years, he or she is likely to live five years more than children born a decade ago." Isn't this a huge misrepresentation of the statistics behind this article?

Yes, the author needs to take Statistics 101..

Thats the Times of India group. They need to take 101 in everything.

Re: Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Post by kamakazizuru »

lijman wrote: post #18
kamakazizuru wrote: post #17

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Actually - he posted something snarky about how this is no big deal considering the poverty, rape, sanitation etc issues that India has - and got majorly downvoted for that - and then seems to have edited it to something else.. While a message like "I love X" wouldnt contribute to the discussion - it's usually likely to just be ignored - but not so severely downvoted. Lastly - for the sake of the argument - "love" is…

Patriotism is not something which needs to be proved on blogs or twitter.If you think poverty or rape has nothing to do with sex ratio of a country then the joke is on you.A valid argument(fact)was made,it was rubbished by "patriotic" people and I showed my patriotism.Sarcasm? PS- the HN account is just new but I've been long time visitor and referring India as "it" respectful?

no one is saying that there are no other issues in India. However - none of what you're bringing up has to do with increased life expectancy. I'd accept this argument if it was 70 year olds going out and raping. That said - I do wish that rapists weren't born or suffered infant mortality- but then again - I'm sure there were things that went wrong in their lives that made them be as screwed up as they turned out.

Re: Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Post by mathattack »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #12

Halfway there; now we just need it to go up by a decade every decade, retroactively.

Escape velocity here we come! I hope we hit this before I'm 80. I'm ok with 50 as my terminal age. Maybe even 60. I don't want to be terminal when I need a new hip every few years.

Re: Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Post by maxerickson »

mathattack wrote: post #34
JoshTriplett wrote: post #12

Halfway there; now we just need it to go up by a decade every decade, retroactively.

Escape velocity here we come! I hope we hit this before I'm 80. I'm ok with 50 as my terminal age. Maybe even 60. I don't want to be terminal when I need a new hip every few years.

This is a story of controlling disease and decreasing childhood and infant mortality. It is not a story of life extension.

Re: Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Post by MarkTee »

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #31
MarkTee wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they truly wished that they'd died younger, then they'd already be dead.

Are you honestly claiming an unsuccessful suicide attempt is an example of wanting to live ? That's getting near "revealed rational preferences" in its level of sheer bullshit.

Nice strawman.

But yes, if somebody makes a failed suicide attempt, and doesn't follow up on that, I'd say that they wish to live (except for those who are left physically incapacitated due to their attempt, obviously).

Re: Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Post by benched »

MarkTee wrote: post #36
eli_gottlieb wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you honestly claiming an unsuccessful suicide attempt is an example of wanting to live ? That's getting near "revealed rational preferences" in its level of sheer bullshit.

Nice strawman. But yes, if somebody makes a failed suicide attempt, and doesn't follow up on that, I'd say that they wish to live (except for those who are left physically incapacitated due to their attempt, obviously).

I'd say you're completely full of shit. Suicide is hard, and, contrary to the propaganda about it, takes a great deal more courage than, say, skydiving.

Re: Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Post by mathattack »

maxerickson wrote: post #35
mathattack wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Escape velocity here we come! I hope we hit this before I'm 80. I'm ok with 50 as my terminal age. Maybe even 60. I don't want to be terminal when I need a new hip every few years.

This is a story of controlling disease and decreasing childhood and infant mortality. It is not a story of life extension.

Of course - I'm just running with the singularity dream.

Re: Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

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Post by [deleted] »

reeses wrote: post #8
benched wrote: post #3

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Are longer lifespans better by definition? I realize fully I'm in the minority on this, and y'all can feel free to live forever, for all I care, but I wish that my personal life expectancy was about 40 years shorter than it is. That would have felt about right to me. Complete, and without too much decline. I mean, is everybody's desired lifespan just "as long as possible?"

You don't want to live half your life as an over-60 geriatric, with daily pains, vocational ostracisation, inadequate income, and decreasing social relevance? Mind you, some would bin that in with the douchey "I wouldn't want to live if I became paraplegic/deaf/blind," but I do fear that, given how crappy it is to be 75 today, it's not going to be senior Disneyland by the time I'm old. Older. Put my brain in a jar an…

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