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me being almost 38 thinking it's not that old

jarsin 2y ago
As you get older you begin to realize that age obsession is like gossip. It's for the low IQ folks. You're really not old until you reach 80's where stuff like cognitive decline and frailty are more likely to start showing up. I use to think 40's was old when i was younger, but if you think about it you have another 40 some odd years until your old. Thats way longer than most companies, marriages, careers etc last.
- tiptup300 2y ago
  much like iq obsession, right?
- askonomm 2y ago
  80 is old? Where I'm from (Northern Europe) 80 is dead, not old. So given that you can't be old when you are already dead, old here is anywhere 60+, with 70+ being the last few years you have left (average life expetency is 76).
  - seszett 2y ago
    > average life expetency is 76 Unless your Northern Europe is Kaliningrad or somewhere else in Russia, 76 is the average life expectancy for men and at birth (that's in the Baltics, the rest of Northern Europe has higher life expectancy than that at birth). Life expectancy is much higher than that at 50 or 60, and also higher for women. Generally, in the Northern and Western Europe I know, people with a "normal" life without special health problems don't seem very old at 60 or 70, and they expect to live to around 80 or more. Even in the US which is notorious for low life expectancy among OECD nations, the average age of death (from a quick Google search) seems to be 85[0]. [0]https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-45a57c5080b55f9bd53137dff6742aa0-pjlq https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-45a57c5080b55f9bd5313... (no source, date, or anything for this data)
    - askonomm 2y ago
      I admittedly made a quick google for Estonia, i.e Baltics, and it could've very well been only for men indeed. I must say however that the average age of death and average life expectancy being two different things is a bit confusing to me.
      - jdmoreira 2y ago
        He tried to explain to you that life expectancy "at birth" and life expectancy at 40, 50, etc... are different.
  - Engineering-MD 2y ago
    Modal age of death is usually in the 90s. Old is a subjective term. I guess people mean an age associated with frailty. People who die below 76 often die from non frailty associated diseases, and so their lives have been cut short before they got ‘old’. Of course frailty is also subjective and relative. It’s why everyone seems old compared to their prior self, and yet equally seems young compared to your elders.
  - badpun 2y ago
    In Poland, according to official government stats, 60 year old men will, on average, die at 78 year old. 60 yo women will, on average, die at 83 year old. Interestingly, for 30 year olds, it's average death at 73 for men and 81 for women.
dalemhurley 2y ago
38 years old is quite young, and you have learnt quite a bit about life. For some reason, there is people in their 20's with 2 years of experience who think someone close to 40 cannot gain the some knowledge as them within 2 years. I would say someone in their 40's and 50's is going to be more pragmatic and disciplined with greater attention to detail as they have more life experience teaching them to be more patience.

As you get older you begin to realize that age obsession is like gossip. It's for the low IQ folks. You're really not old until you reach 80's where stuff like cognitive decline and frailty are more likely to start showing up. I use to think 40's was old when i was younger, but if you think about it you have another 40 some odd years until your old. Thats way longer than most companies, marriages, careers etc last.

tiptup300 2y ago
much like iq obsession, right?
askonomm 2y ago
80 is old? Where I'm from (Northern Europe) 80 is dead, not old. So given that you can't be old when you are already dead, old here is anywhere 60+, with 70+ being the last few years you have left (average life expetency is 76).
- seszett 2y ago
  > average life expetency is 76 Unless your Northern Europe is Kaliningrad or somewhere else in Russia, 76 is the average life expectancy for men and at birth (that's in the Baltics, the rest of Northern Europe has higher life expectancy than that at birth). Life expectancy is much higher than that at 50 or 60, and also higher for women. Generally, in the Northern and Western Europe I know, people with a "normal" life without special health problems don't seem very old at 60 or 70, and they expect to live to around 80 or more. Even in the US which is notorious for low life expectancy among OECD nations, the average age of death (from a quick Google search) seems to be 85[0]. [0]https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-45a57c5080b55f9bd53137dff6742aa0-pjlq https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-45a57c5080b55f9bd5313... (no source, date, or anything for this data)
  - askonomm 2y ago
    I admittedly made a quick google for Estonia, i.e Baltics, and it could've very well been only for men indeed. I must say however that the average age of death and average life expectancy being two different things is a bit confusing to me.
    - jdmoreira 2y ago
      He tried to explain to you that life expectancy "at birth" and life expectancy at 40, 50, etc... are different.
- Engineering-MD 2y ago
  Modal age of death is usually in the 90s. Old is a subjective term. I guess people mean an age associated with frailty. People who die below 76 often die from non frailty associated diseases, and so their lives have been cut short before they got ‘old’. Of course frailty is also subjective and relative. It’s why everyone seems old compared to their prior self, and yet equally seems young compared to your elders.
- badpun 2y ago
  In Poland, according to official government stats, 60 year old men will, on average, die at 78 year old. 60 yo women will, on average, die at 83 year old. Interestingly, for 30 year olds, it's average death at 73 for men and 81 for women.

dalemhurley 2y ago

38 years old is quite young, and you have learnt quite a bit about life. For some reason, there is people in their 20's with 2 years of experience who think someone close to 40 cannot gain the some knowledge as them within 2 years. I would say someone in their 40's and 50's is going to be more pragmatic and disciplined with greater attention to detail as they have more life experience teaching them to be more patience.