How Billionaires Die. The more money you have, the longer you live — until …

In the interest of covering all things “longevity”…

and Victor Björk’s commentary on the article:

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Dead billionaires have an average age at death of 86? So does the average Japanese or Hong Konger.

Now let’s look at Japanese or Hong Kong billionaires.

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Even if you did everything right today you’d live between 90-105 or so in good health I’d guess, if we consider no further advancements.

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Not sure if he was a billionaire, but he was definitely famous.

He was 88 and died from dementia.

The cookies killed him

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He’d still be running around and doing jumping jacks if he had only started a “kale chips” company (though perhaps not so wealthy). :wink:

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If they all got together and contributed say 5% of their wealth to an Apollo program on human aging - almost everyone would live longer and healthier in the future…

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