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Who wants to live to 100?

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The Daily Money

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Mon Apr 1 2024

 

Daniel de Visé Personal Finance Reporter

Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.

No April Fool's jokes here: Just bad puns.

With all the aches and pains that attend old age, how many Americans would really want to live to 100?

A lot of us, it turns out.

More than half of Americans, 54%, say it is their goal to live to 100, according to a new report from Corebridge Financial, a financial services company.

Much of the rest of the 20-page report deals with what it costs to live for a century. And that, experts say, is where the numbers get scary.

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Iris Apfel sits for a portrait during her 100th birthday party at Central Park Tower on Sept. 9, 2021, in New York City.

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But a stroke, surgeries, and prostate cancer sapped the couple's savings.

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Sometime around age 50, the average American can now expect a household net worth exceeding $1 million.

Average household net worth now tops $500,000 for Americans in their late 30s. For late 40-somethings, it exceeds $750,000. For 50-somethings, it reaches seven figures.

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With all the aches and pains that attend old age, how many Americans would really want to live to 100? A lot of us, it turns out.

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