To ask what age you would say is no longer dying young

How is 50 - 60 middle aged? That would mean people living to 100 -120 and I think they are very much in the minority!

40 - 50 is middle aged because old age (if people are lucky enough to get there) is generally 80 -100.

Dying young I would say under 50. Dying too young from 50 to 68, dying too soon under about 79/80. My dad has terminal cancer in early 70s and it is definitely too soon for him. When someone is over 92 I start to feel QOL goes downhill quite a lot in even healthy-ish people.

I don’t mean this rudely, but the one thing a 27 yr old can do that you can’t at 67 is call themselves young. (and I’m much closer to your age than 27)

I'd say 80+

My mum is 64 and my dad is 71. Although neither is 'young' both are in good health and active so I would be shocked if they died at those ages.

My Uncle and Grandad both died at 49 of lung cancer. That was definitely too young!

Haha! 😂😂😂😂

How can dying at/beyond the typical life expectancy be "dying young"? Not even "early" or "too soon" but actually young?! I think young means under 40. If I said I'd had an aunt but she died young, then revealed she had died at 60, I think most people (even those on here answering 80+) would be nonplussed.

Oh dear. When I worked in palliative care I’d get surprised that people were shocked their 90plus relatives were going to die. That said, I am very pragmatic about death and dying so I find stuff like that a bit 🤔 but that’s not to say I don’t understand that grief works in mysterious ways, and have compassion for the bereaved.

If I make it to 70 I’d consider myself old enough really. But I’m biased because the only people I’ve loved who died were 3 and 35. They died too young.

I’m 67 and if I died I’d find it young😂 Seriously I can still do anything a 27 year old can do, but with more experience😉

It sort of depends on the context- dying young to me is a phrase to describe the passing of someone less than middle aged, perhaps with children still living at home. However the age that would I think “well that persons had a decent innings” would be anything 80+. There’s obviously a gap there where say if someone was 65 I wouldn’t think they had died youngest’s, but not would I think they’d lived to the age I might have expected as the average age at death in the uk is almost 80 for men and 83ish for women I think.

I think it depends on the family. My father died at 46 of a heart attack and my brother at 49 of leukemia. But everyone else in the family (5 grandparents, all aunts and uncles, my mother) died in their mid-to late 90’s and one of my aunts at 104. I’m 79 now, I expect (hope?)despite various health problems to make at least 90.
My partner is 70 and his whole family went before 80. So I would say 85+ in my family is young and 80 in his family, if one agrees that “young” is the same as “earlier than you’d expect.”

This is very true. When I was younger I thought 60 was ancient, my parents are early/mid 70s and I'd definitely think they died too young if they died now. They are both fairly fit and healthy (long may it last) and got offended when their neighbour called them elderly!

60+

For me 'dying young' is someone in their twenties or thirties or younger

Dying too soon would be 40s - 60s

Once you get to 70s, I'd say you had a good run

I have many relatives that did not reach 50, so this may be why

This reminds me of a colleague who's father had died quite unexpectedly. He'd had a triple bypass years earlier (possibly decades) and had had cardiac episodes since, including stints in intensive care, but pulled through. The final time he'd walked into the ambulance on his own, and told his family he'd see them soon. He died on the way to the hospital and everyone was very shocked. I went to visit her at home and other family and friends were there, reminiscing about him and how "he'd gone too soon, he wasn't ready to die". I casually asked later what age he had been, thinking he was maybe late 60s. He was 95 😁

I’d say over 80 my dad is a very fit and active 85 year old but he even says his days are numbered . 65 is so young and not even pension age now. Back in the 1970’s growing up everyone acted and looked a lot older I think . My gran looked ancient at 60 it’s just not the case now . I’m 51 and have plenty of life left in me

65

Yeah, it's got everything to do with how fit & healthy the person's perceived to be, hasn't it? I was going to say 70 (my age) but I'm not in particularly good shape. My parents lasted until their late 90s and were bouncing around until they passed 90.

So I'll probably go with the consensus at 75, but it would be 'young' for many.

Absolutely agree with you

I do think this depends on your socio- economic circumstances. I read a piece in the Guardian ages ago thst there was nearly 20 years between average age of death somewhere a bit nice in Glasgow and somewhere a few miles down the road that was a bit rough.

I wouldn’t be surptised that someone who has been a physical labourer for all their working life died in their 60s.

There's being kept alive and there's living, though.

Dying young - maybe under 50.
From 50+, heart disease, cancer etc rates all start rising significantly, so while unusual, it's not necessarily that surprising that some people will be on the lower end of the bell curve.

"Young" is different from "not yet reached standard life expectancy".

What would I think is a reasonable, expected age for people to start dying is a huge range: 60-80 depending on the lifestyle and socio-economic factors for a particular person.

Average life expectancy in the UK is 81, so i'd say anything below 75 can be viewed as 'before your time'.

Life expectancy at 65 is approx 20 years (22.1 for women and 18.7 for men). Dying at 65 is younger than expected by around one-quarter of your life-expectancy at birth.

65 is young to die.

Older than 40 is borrowed time.
Men are useless, women are generally infertile, so also useless.
It is only medical science that prolongs the inevitable decline.