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Don Rizzle:
Retirement age 'should reach 85'
By Paul Rincon
BBC News science reporter, St Louis 

The age of retirement should be raised to 85 by 2050 because of trends in life expectancy, a US biologist has said.
Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford University says anti-ageing advances could raise life expectancy by a year each year over the next two decades.

That will put a strain on economies around the world if current retirement ages are maintained, he warned.

He also told a science meeting in St Louis that 50-year or 75-year mortgages may not be unusual in the future.

Dr Tuljapurkar was speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in the Missouri city.

"People are going to do things they didn't get round to in their working lives. Current institutions are really not equipped at the moment to deal with such long lives," Dr Tuljapurkar said.

"We are going to have to plan a lot more carefully, which people are not very good at."

Lifestyle trends

The Stanford researcher has been looking at relationships between historical trends in ageing, population growth and economic activity.

Based on this, he came up with a scenario in which anti-ageing technologies will increase the most common age of death by one year per year between 2010 and 2030.

Dr Tuljapurkar then applied this scenario to four countries: the US, China, Sweden and India.


 In the US the cost of social security and medical care would almost double if people retired at 65
 

He found that his projected trends in life expectancy would have profound effects on the economy, lifestyle and population demographics.
"It might be possible to go through two mortgages, for example, or even have 50-year or 75-year mortgages," Dr Tuljapurkar explained.

In the US, the cost of social security and medical care would almost double if people retired at 65 under Tuljapurkar's scenario.

But an increase in the retirement age to 85 would bring costs down to today's levels.

However these trends would also create a "permanent underclass" of countries where opportunities for increased life expectancy were not the same as in the industrialised world.

"We can't even get retrovirals to some countries now," he told journalists.


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Sikotic™:
LMAO @ elderly people still working

virtuoso:

This scientist can go and fuck himself yet again we see people openly talking about turning us into slaves,what the hell is the matter with these people? as that is what this amounts to.

Don Rizzle:
yea i'd rather not live as long than work till i'm 85!

but on the other hand old ppl are a drain on society and have little to contribute other than inheritence, i think instead of raising the retirement age to 85 we should be put them down unless they can fork out extra money to make their existence worthwhile....

virtuoso:
Let me break it down for you very simply
We pay masses of tax to our so called government
We pay some of the highest prices in europe for our goods
We pay the highest road taxes in europe with 75% going straight to our government
We pay VAT on so many goods

Yet there is a pensions crisis apparently, do you not realise that such a crisis doesnt just happen by accident, and that it actually underlines the massive levels of fraud which are occurring on an every day basis. More and more of our income is being syphoned off, where is the improvement in our general standard of living? the NHS is about to enter an almost third world status, with many hospitals around here closing, people dying daily because of the waiting list, NHS cutbacks on the wards because they dont have enough money. Even hundreds of thousands pf people who can't even get registered with a dentist. Yet you think people are a drain on society, wake up and smell the coffee, our economy is being drained we sure arent draining it.

I just read that you think we should murder people after they live past a certain age, do you not realise how sick and evil that is, to suggest the slaughter of people i dont know whether your just a complete idiot or a monster certainly after you just said that i am inclined to believe the latter of the 2.

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