I'm 27 my parents are in their 50s what's the chances in this life of me out living my parents before they get to old age?

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The chances of you outliving both your parents? Likely but perhaps not as likely as you imagine. I know how to calculate this from mortality tables but I don't have the data or the inclination. Each year there is some chance that a person will die. Of course this increases with age. At 100 it's about 50/50 to make it through another year. So each year your parents are more likely to die than you are, and the difference increases with time.