Race Can Have An Effect On Longevity

According to the worksheet, I will live to be 81 years old. I noticed that a lot of factors that influenced longevity involved activities one would not normally associate with how old they will live to. Some of these activities include one’s salary and whether you finished college or received a graduate degree. It surprised me that you will lose years on your life if you get less than seven hours of sleep per night. I expected that a person would lose years due to lack of sleep, but I did not realize how many years. One question I felt the worksheet could add is what the race of the person is. After watching this week’s lecture video I learned that white citizens tend to live longer than other races so race can have an effect on one’s longevity.
This gap between longevity of races is narrowing, but currently still exists. I think I would like to live to be 88 because it is just old enough to see my grandchildren grow up, but not too old enough to watch all of my friends die. I do not want to live forever because I feel like it would be too painful to watch everyone I grow close to die and would lose the motivation to work towards a goal due to my infinite time.