Today, this website gave me more for me to worry about; it says that I will coast along well after 75. And might come to a final resting place only by 100.
Your Healthy Life Expectancy is 42.6 YearsOut of the potential 45.6 years ahead, thankfully only the final three will be unhealthy. Small mercies!
Your Unhealthy Life Expectancy is 2.9 Years
Your Life Expectancy is 45.6 Years
This is the first time such a measurement tool has been developed. While it’s too early to validate the accuracy of our calculations with actual data, we have been careful to ensure that the model assumptions are based on established actuarial sources and the modeling results are logical and consistent.Big data at work here, behind the scenes. The big data that the Social Security folks and life insurance folks use.
As if the potential 45 years ahead of me is not scary enough, the researchers note this: "One thing it doesn’t take into account however is the impact of the genetic revolution." Oh, great! The rapidly advancing genetic medical technology will then make me live for another twenty years. I will be 120 when I finally die! Un-fucking-believable!
The lead researcher there is Jeyaraj Vadiveloo. For us Tamils, that name is recognizable. But the twist in the spelling from the usual one that we find back in the old country means that this Jeyaraj Vadiveloo was born to people of Tamil stock who lived in places like Malaysia/Singapore, South Africa, the West Indies. The diaspora tried their best to retain names from the old country, and in the process came up with their own spellings.
One of my favorites along those lines is the name Mahendra Nagamootoo. In Tamil Nadu, the name "Nagamootoo" would be usually spelled "Nagamuthu." But, the diaspora community went with the sound and then created their own spelling of the name. Jeyaraj Vadiveloo is here in the US via Malaysia. Vadiveloo is the "Vadivelu" of the old country.
When I eventually die, a gazillion years from now, people are going to have a tough time linking my last name to the old country!
3 comments:
That life expectancy calculation is crap. So don't worry !!! Since I am dabbling in the adjoining spaces to medicine these days, I see how cruel the lottery of health is. I am so so so much more thankful for good health.
Vadiveloo is ikely to be from the West Indies. Its not because the diaspora adopted such spellings. The way these came about are simply because when the indentured labourers landed there, some white man, who had never heard of Tamil Names was required to fill their forms, and give them an ID. Of course, these labourers could not write English. They were asked what their name was. Nagamuthu they said. The Limey entered it as Nagamootoo. And that was that !
The double oo s are typically West Indian or Mauritian. In Singapore & Malaysia, names were rarely butchered. South Africa had a different butchering - usually in the consonants. Pravin Gordhan (Govardhan)- their ex Finance Minister is typical of many Indian names.
What is the annoyed undertone? ;)
Jeyaraj Vadiveloo's CV says that his undergrad is from U. of Malaya.
Yes, it is more likely that the white man spelled it that way.
People from Pondy also have such distinct spelling. French man's spello maybe?
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