The above is all nonsense, especially for Hacker News readers. Someone here in their early 30’s has a mean life expectancy of almost 90.

Many people opt to commit slow suicide. That’s what you’re seeing.

Possibly dumb question: can an early 30 something trust that number to apply to them?

I'd imagine the calculation is more sophisticated than I can imagine, but can it take into account things that haven't necessarily had their full impact yet? Like potential world war, deep recession/depression, massive unrest, things like microplastics, forever chemicals, dropping testosterone, the after effects of covid itself as well as everything around it.

>The health of the average person in the west (And globally) is in decline. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer are all massively massively increased from where they were 100 years ago.

In the US, life expectancy has increased by 30 years since 1900. People weren't dying of cancer as frequently because 24% of them had already died by the age of five.