Livingto100.com - Find out how long you will live

Given the chance to find out when you might die would you want to know the answer?
If you are brave enough to face a cold hard number, take the calculator survey at Livingto100.com. The calculator is the creation of Dr. Perls who has used "the most current and carefully researched medical and scientific data" available to date. The survey asks forty personal questions related to personal health, family history and lifestyle habits then calculates life expectancy. The questions are mostly easy to answer but the ones that seem most subjective and medically pertinent are more difficult. For example, most young people do not know anything about their blood pressure or cholesterol and there are a few questions concerning these numbers. Without the bulk of that information, the results seem somewhat less stable. After the survey that takes about ten minutes, users can see a personalized feedback form including suggestions, warnings and medical facts that can help steer people down the right path. Users also receive a personalized "To-Do" list and a list of things that can be done differently and the number of years that action or change will add to the life expectancy.

"Thomas Perls MD, MPH is the founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of centenarians and their families in the world. More can be learned about the study at www.bumc.bu.edu/centenarian.

The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator is available for licensing and can be tailor-made for your needs as in the settings of human resources departments, health care organizations and other entitites that would like to provide its employees and/or clients with information and links specific to your organization and in some cases interventions (e.g. nurse coaching). Answers to the calculator questions can be provided to the organization as a helpful guage of its employees' and/or clients' health-related behaviors, thus allowing for better and more appropriate provision of services to these individuals."

This seems like a fun survey but when that number shows up in black and white it sure is scary. Site visitors will most likely have similar reactions to the grave yet simple number. Young people can bet against friends on who will live the longest and those actually interested in the medical side can take active steps to add years to their calculated life expectancy.

If users do not know any medical stats such as their blood pressure and cholesterol, how much does it affect the calculations?