This past week a high school classmate of mine passed away. He was 49 years old and by all accounts a great guy (as I remembered him to be from high school). On our class Facebook Page there were many tributes to him and lots of comments along the lines of, "So sad. Too young." or "So young to go.", "Life's too short." etc...
My question is; what is the cutoff date where someone is "too young" to die? At some age we switch our sentiments to; "Well, he/she lived a good long life."
What is that age now? When I was younger 75 seemed like a good long life. Nowadays 85-90?
Is there a sweet spot where we can say, "Wow. He/she died at just the right age?"
I guess it varies from person to person. One person's 50 years may be like 90 to another.
Anyhow...does seem too young.
Life expectancy has drastically changed in the past 3 decades. Some doctors believe the human body is made to live to 150 years! Once we know, the average life expectancy we have a habit of programming the body to die-at a cellular level. 49 is way too young!
78.9 average in US
76.30 for men
81.30 for women
Yes women on average live 5 years longer
81.96 Sweden and Norway
Now that is the average. 49 means- he was on average cheated out of 27 good years-which is 50 percent of his life span on the day he died.
I think its tragic that he died. I hope you are in good health. But more importantly, living life to the fullest-Redtz.
I have always planned on living until 105.
I am currently going though a serious health scare-atm.
So I can relate.
Time-What is to be done? How shall we spend our days?
These questions make the daily struggle seem petty and meaningless.
Except the Celtics of course.