Wanted to live to 75. as he gets closer to that age, is he sticking to his plan? in the october 2014 atlantic article, he vowed when he hit that age his approach to his health care will completely change, that while he won't actively end his life, he wouldn't try to prolong it. he cited statistics on how america is living longer and why that wasn't necessarily a good thing. in 1900 the life expectancy of an average american was approximately 47 years. by 1990 it was over 75. since his article appeared, the number peaked in 2019 at nearly 79, but due in part to covid-19 it most recently was mea...