I think you both appear to be aggressively agreeing with each other. Yes, deaths are front-loaded towards young people because the biggest variance in average

I think you both appear to be aggressively agreeing with each other. Yes, deaths are front-loaded towards young people because the biggest variance in average life expectancy is child mortality. In countries like Bangladesh, one's ability to clear that hurdle is certainly correlated with socioeconomic status Yes, once you clear that hurdle (i.e. for most people in America), there are diminishing returns to life expectancy. I, for one, am not sure that I fully agree with that last statement. I'd love to see some research studying the average life expectancy of groups that engage in, for example, regular fitness and meditation (especially their effect on life-reducing hypertension).