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Originally Posted by Buccaneer
Re: Age of death/life expectancy.
You guys were missing the point. The health care provided to presidents/and other mucky-mucks blow the normal charts out of the water. You don't use normal actuaries for presidents, which was all of them since FDR (except for JFK of course) lived or will live to an extraordinary old age.
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I agree that you don't use normal tables for presidents, but I think there's other factors that go into it, too. Being President is different from being a normal old man in a lot of ways -- I'd imagine the stress level is much higher, and the schedule is much different than most people his age.
I'm not saying the best answer is to go back to a 'normal' table. The best answer is to create a table consisting only of Presidents in office. The problem is that the data is ridiculously small, since there are few lives to look at (especially if you only use recent data), the few lives that do exist are limited to at most 8 years of data each, and the table ends at an age earlier than what McCain's age would be in 2016, since no one has reached it.