The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England
"1 in 25 Americans being born will not make it to their 40th birthday."<p>Wow. Actually impressed with the analysis backing this up. If you read the entire thread, he actually covers nearly every correlating factor I could think of.<p>And it's pretty clearly drugs, guns, suicide, and cars. (The cardio health one doesn't seem as strong).<p>The one that is crazy to me is the uptick in driving fatalities. Cars are an order of magnitude safer than they used to be and we <i>were</i> trending towards 0. An entire generation has to be that much more reckless than before to make that kind of a dent.