Life Span

Life span or lifespan may refer to:

  • Maximum life span, the maximum lifespan observed in a group
  • Life expectancy, the average lifespan expected of a group
  • Longevity, the average lifespan expected under ideal conditions
  • Lifespan (film), a 1976 film starring Klaus Kinski

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or span:

    The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
    Carolyn Heilbrun (b. 1926)

    ... we’ve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventy—all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics—many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.
    Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)