What is the current life expectancy of a man, given that he retires at age A?

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Request for Question Clarification by answerguru-ga on 07 Aug 2002 10:55 PDT

Hi David,

There doesn't seem to be a formula that general...the following
information is usually needed:
1. Country of residence
2. Marital status
3. Smoker?
4. Occupation

Obviously some of this information cannot easily be plugged into a
formula so you would need some sort of statistical study that matches
the variables listed above :)

answerguru-ga

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Clarification of Question by david_j_kaplan-ga on 08 Aug 2002 06:39 PDT

1. Country of residence - USA
2. Marital status - Married
3. Smoker? - not for the past 25 years
4. Occupation - mathematician

Father died at 89; mother alive at 91.

The only thing I've seen with a direct orollary between retirement age
and age at death was a morbid bit of humor at a large aerospace
company showing that if you worked to age 65 there, you'd be dead in
18 months; in other words, they'd work you to death.

What I have heard is that a lot depends on whether the person had a
life outside work before retirement.  The dedicated "company man"
whose life centres around his work is more likely to die early,
because on retirement he suddenly has no reason for living.  I guess
that would make it impossible to construct one equation to fit
everyone.  I did have a quick look, but most of the material works
from standard life expectancy tables to calculate how many years are
left after retirement age is reached.

CalCentral.com has several longevity calculators that may interest you.

CalcCentral.com Health Calculators
http://www.calccentral.com/health.html

Best wishes for a long and healthy life!
fsw

I also saw that joke years ago; thought it was interesting; looked for
a good answer to it; found nothing of interest; and decided to post
the question.
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Subject: Re: Life expectancy as a function of rertirement age 
From: wengland-ga on 07 Aug 2002 12:03 PDT 

The only thing I've seen with a direct corollary between retirement
age
and age at death was a morbid bit of humor at a large aerospace
company showing that if you worked to age 65 there, you'd be dead in
18 months; in other words, they'd work you to death.

There is an answer.  Check out
http://home.att.net/~coachthee/Archives/longevityvsretirementage.html