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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Red Headed Stranger" data-source="post: 5991266" data-attributes="member: 90351"><p>If you are looking at statistics (remember the book "How To Lie With Statistics"), remember our elderly are/were in much better physical shape than the retirees are today.  If you look at the obesity numbers of today compared with years ago, we are a nation of "fatties."  The likelihood of living until the ripe old age of 85 - 90 is not too good.  Both of my parents died early, as did my grandparents.  I say, 1) look at the age of your parents/grandparents before making a decision AND 2) if you are going to NEED Social Security to live on due to lack of financial planning when you were young, this will help you decide whether to take it early at 62 or wait until full retirement age.  The number of people I see daily in the obituaries who never even made it to 62 is staggering.</p></blockquote><p></p>