When one thinks about retirement, one cannot escape from the somewhat morbid discussion about life expectancy.  If I can break it down into simple non-statistical terms, life expectancy basically means the number of years one can expect to live up till (usually calculated at a certain age).  And of course, most of us will be aware that based on statistics, most females in most countries have longer life expectancy than males.  And in most developed countries, the life expectancy for males and females probably is around or moving towards the age of 80. When Do You Want to Die? So when thinking about the retirement age or retirement planning in general, it is inevitable that the question about life expectancy will come up.  Meet any financial planner or insurance agent and they will most probably bring up the issue of the "age that one is expected to die" .  Well, it ......