The Pachinko Machine Of Your Probable Death

Nathan Yau's life expectancy simulator makes one thing clear: don't book plans after 80.

Thanks to humanity's endless fascination with mortality, there's no shortage of tools out there that will predict how much longer you've got to live. But according to FlowingData's Nathan Yau, all these death calculators have the same fundamental problem: they're all based on the average of everyone doing the dying. There's a lot of luck involved in whether you live another 50 years, or just five. How do you calculate that, let alone visualize it?

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