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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.
Today, life expectancy is about 75-80 [years] and for most of human history that was not the case, she says. We have some estimates for the Middle Ages where life expectancy might have been 10-12, which means many people never made it out of childhood.