Beverly Hills High School Class of 1963

A piece by Gerard Sarnat

To the best of perhaps incomplete knowledge

around 30% of all our classmates have passed

whereas ChatGPT tells Gerry that “about half

of individuals born in 1941 survive to age 80.

…However, survival rates can vary based on

factors like gender, lifestyle, healthcare access.”

Not to put too fine a point on it but in the US

“the richest 1 percent of men lives 14.6 years

longer on average than the poorest 1 percent

of men, while among women in those wealth

percentiles, difference’s 10.1 years on average.”*

Since data is pre-Trump, now only imagine…

*https://news.mit.edu/2016/study-rich-poor-huge-mortality-gap-us-0411