When Will You Die? Ask the Computer
I've always shied away from those Internet quizzes that make you answer questions to determine how old you are, not chronologically but healthwise. Some of my half-century friends get in the 30s but I still stay away. Now how would you like to know when you'll die? I can't imagine anything more gruesome! I've always lived my life based on serendipity -- you know, the things you never expect to happen but do, like meeting my husband after talking to a woman on a boat in the Bahamas who happened to live near me and going out on singles' weekends with her, then up to the Catskills to meet a husband for her, only I met mine. Those kinds of things. But a new study purports that a computer can tell you how old you will be when you die. I'd kind of like it to be a surprise. Maybe because I've fought cancer twice, death doesn't scare me so much (okay, maybe it's that I've been cancer-free for almost 10 years that does it). But statisticia...