Life expectancy tables may overestimate on your death day, but they underestimate some people’s lives on some other days, so it’s not like they always overestimate. It seems like you’ve explained it all pretty well, I don’t see any paradox left.
Well, what does dying ‘prematurely’ mean? Is it just dying younger than the life expectancy your cohort had at the time when you were born? What’s so special about that life expectancy, rather than later estimates, or ones more specific to your own health & circumstances? Which are surely more relevant.
But if we use what seems to be the most relevant life expectancy, viz. one incorporating all relevant information about you, no-one ever dies prematurely.
(And dying prematurely doesn’t mean dying before the average of your cohort either, because it’s possible for most/all of a whole cohort to die young, e.g. from plague or war.)
Life expectancy tables may overestimate on your death day, but they underestimate some people’s lives on some other days, so it’s not like they always overestimate. It seems like you’ve explained it all pretty well, I don’t see any paradox left.
Well, what does dying ‘prematurely’ mean? Is it just dying younger than the life expectancy your cohort had at the time when you were born? What’s so special about that life expectancy, rather than later estimates, or ones more specific to your own health & circumstances? Which are surely more relevant.
But if we use what seems to be the most relevant life expectancy, viz. one incorporating all relevant information about you, no-one ever dies prematurely.
(And dying prematurely doesn’t mean dying before the average of your cohort either, because it’s possible for most/all of a whole cohort to die young, e.g. from plague or war.)
It means dying before the age of 50 or so.