This year’s life expectancy is up from 86 last year to 87 this year. It’s been a year of instability and uncertainty and disappointment, so hopefully the extra year won’t be something I’ll regret.
As of tomorrow, I will have outlived the following (in no particular order)
- Abraham Lincoln
- Steve Jobs
- Adolf Hitler
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Ian Fleming
- Dante Alighieri
- Albrecht Dürer
- Warren Zevon
- Alexander Pope
- Charles Mingus
- Dag Hammarskjøld
- Stéphane Mallarmé
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