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â¢ Get a life. In one study of healthy men and women with an average starting age of 71, Butler found the highest survival rates in those who had something to get up for in the morning, whether it was a job or a golf date.
An alternative measure of average life span is the age at which half of all deaths occurred before and the other half after (median age at death); in 2010 this was 82 for a man and 85 for a woman, up to three extra years of life than given by life expectancy at birth.