average life

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a 1-year-old in the U.S. was about 56 years; that bespeaks a morbid population of infants.

Dr. Sunil Patel, a urologic oncologist and an assistant professor of urology and oncology within the Brady Urological Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said that’s because the average life expectancy for an American man is under 85.

Since then, average life expectancy in the U.S. has only dropped further.

I remember very clearly feeling like I was going to combust one day when I was 10 or 11 because the phrase “I can’t live an average life” beamed into my brain and played on a loop.

An average life expectancy of six years was part of the diagnosis.