xoxoxoBruce wrote:

The only question is when...

Except the “when” changes as you age:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/how-long-does-retirement-last-most-american-men-don-t-seem-to-know/ar-AA1i5ix5?ocid=HPCDHP&pc=HPDTDFJS&cvid=b26a214cc9fe472bb47ce879b3f30927&ei=11

Most of us seem to know that the average American lives between 70 and 80 years: 73.5 years for men, and 79.3 for women, to be exact. Fewer of us understand that life expectancy rises with age. An American man who turns 70 today will live to 85, on average. A woman of 70 will live to 87

That knowledge is called longevity literacy. Many of us don’t have it, and ignorance may cost us….
 

And so he did.  2016 I believe.
 

Maybe because over the years, one get shorter?  Or maybe because, with age, they stop trying to look down on all others?
 

glatt tried to slip that by.

Tall people are an offense to Goddess Gravity.

Oooh.  I work on the project that provides a lot of the data for the studies mentioned here.  ooh  ooh

re height, I see a few tall old people on a regular basis ....but they're very stooped so it's hard to tell how tall they are ...... 

Note that average height has increased quite rapidly over the last 100 years, so our concept of tall has likely changed too - but the people who are old people now were born over 70 years ago.  When 5'10" was considered tall for a guy -now it's average, so there may be lots of tall old people, we just don't notice them

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World's tallest people are said to be in Netherlands.  Always wondered why.  Living below sea level (closer to center of gravity)  makes one grow taller?
 

What, another hole in the head?