The maths of this are all wrong.
It's called a midlife crisis on the basis that a 40 something year old will calculate that he's not likely to live much beyond 80, so goes a bit nuts.

But, 80 is the maximum you can expect. Most people won't get that far.

So, it's more like a 2/3 of the way through life crisis.

Summary: If you're past 33, you'd better hurry up and buy a hang-glider.
(username failed moderation, Wed 8 May 2013, 8:43, 11 replies)

Claiming to be 'middle aged' in your 50s seems a little over optimistic to me as well.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 8 May 2013, 8:56, closed)

I don't know where you got your numbers from, I intend to live to 906.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Wed 8 May 2013, 9:01, closed)

A quick check on Google suggests that
the current life expectancy for those already over 60 is 84. I can't imagine it being lower for younger age groups, so 45-50 would be a fair time to consider oneself middle-aged.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 8 May 2013, 9:03, closed)

Details details.
I'm certainly not going to live that long. I'm a fucking idiot who drinks and smokes and rides a motorbike.
(username failed moderation, Wed 8 May 2013, 10:15, closed)

Combine the three, and you'd probably be looking at an even earlier death.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 8 May 2013, 11:06, closed)

So that Nissan Skyline I had when I was
27 was actually a ridiculous attempt to recapture my glory days?
(username failed moderation, Wed 8 May 2013, 11:27, closed)

Very selfish of you to be poisoning all those organs.
Can we at least have your corneas?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 8 May 2013, 12:55, closed)

You can, but
they're not very good. I started wearing glasses to read this year.

I have some reasonably good toes on my right foot, if they're any help.
(username failed moderation, Wed 8 May 2013, 12:57, closed)

It's the reject pile, for you, I'm afraid.
Do try to avoid crashing that bike, there's a good chap.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 8 May 2013, 13:55, closed)

Given my family history
and advances in medicine and geriatrics, I will likely be 120 before I pop my clogs. Which will mean that my kids will be in their 90s and glad to see my wrinkled ass go.
( Wanderer, Wed 8 May 2013, 15:20, closed)

Wouldn't it be great if you could predict
the date of your death?
Then you could have your midlife crisis at exactly the right time.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 8 May 2013, 9:32, closed)