Description: This is an article from a free-lance writer and is his debut performance in The Actuary. The article presents a humorous look at the information contained in the obituaries of the New York Times.

Description: This article is an introduction to the topic of mortality projections and their impact on social security systems. The article reviews two life expectancy graphs and overall trends in life expectancy by gender at birth and age 65 in the United States, Canada and the UK.

Description: This article is about the 2008 Living to 100 Symposium which highlighted changes in longevity, biological perspectives, mortality trends and more .

Description: The Society’s Committee to Recommend a New Mortality Basis for Individual Annuity Valuation was formed in 1980 at NAIC request because the margins in the 1971 IAM Table had eroded. This article describes the development of the 1983 Table a and shows how well the 1973 Experience Table fits the underlying data.

Description: This editorial explains the benefits of a recent seminar among NAFTA countries on mortality improvement and how social security systems can be affected.

Description: This article presents a summary of George Immerwahr's discussion at the May, 1967 Middle Atlantic Actuaries Club meeting where he promoted the idea of population controls to discourage large families.

Description: This article discusses the findings of the January 2007 paper regarding the mortality experience Fellows of the Society of Actuaries. The on–line my paper Mortality Experience of Members of the Society of Actuaries investigated the mortality experience of 3,037 members of the Society, including all Fellows who attained fellowship through 1974. This note takes the investigation through one more class of Fellows 1975 Fellows.

Description: A sample is shown of age-adjusted death rates by cause in the United States population, compiled by H.E.W.‘s National Center for Health Statistics, which appear on pages 77-84 of the T.S.A. 1978 Reports distributed November 1979.

Description: Attempts to construct an abridged mortality table from the scant data available. The number of persons exposed is 291, among whom there have been 184 deaths.

Description: This graph indicates the overall historical trend in life expectancy at age 65.