Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates

Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by Rainymood on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @01:29PM (#9415615)

As someone who is studying actuarial sciences ... if you use some real data against the Gompertz you see that it doesn't really fit that well for very small and very large ages. Which is why this guy Makeham did this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_of...

As a student with a mathematics background (and boy do we love 'simplifications'). I can never stop theorizing and thinking about what would happen if we would just insist on a maximum age of lets say 80. It will probably never happen, but just think about it. It's both morbid and fascinating in it's own sense.

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by drpgq on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:17PM (#9416352)

I remember reading an IEEE Spectrum article about death rates over 100, and while obviously very high, apparently they didn't increase much. I can't seem to find it unfortunately as it was a good article.

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by wehadfun on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @02:39PM (#9416049)

So what happens at 80?

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by chiph on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @02:44PM (#9416085)

Your palm crystal blinks red and you go to Carousel.

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by brlewis on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:21PM (#9416378)

I had to google this reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run#Film

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by glandium on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @08:42PM (#9424409)

You're turned into Soylent Green.

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