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How Many Days Do You Think You Have to Live?
HINT: Most people vastly underestimate the real number
According to some researchers, the average life span on planet Earth is just under 70 years — or 25,500 days to be more specific. Of course, this number is just an average. Some people live fewer years and some live more.
On the short end of the stick, James Dean died at 24, Jimi Hendrix at 27, and Martin Luther King at 39. Mother Theresa, on the other hand, made it to 87, Michelangelo lived to 88, and Nelson Mandela to 95.
Bottom line, none of us know how long we have, even if we study the most sophisticated actuarial tables.
The following animated 8-minute video, featuring Prem Rawat as narrator, explores this topic in more detail, revealing a fundamental human assumption — most of think we have way longer to live that we actually do.
