What's being 60, anyway?

Friday, September 25, 2020

Born in 1960, a man in Botswana could expect to live up to 48.1 years: a woman, negligibly longer at 49.1 years. Born around 2020, he can expect to live almost 20 years longer than that, and die at age 69.4; if it is a woman, she can expect to live longer and die at age 72.5 years.

With this longevity comparison out of the way, I will, for the most part, end the comparison between man and woman here and concentrate on the gender I am most familiar with; manhood.

In this opinion piece, while I deliberately eschew objectivity, I want to bring my own subjectivity to bear on what it means and is most deserving of our attention as men, at 60 years of age.

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