Five Years in the Life follows (times are Eastern): Five Years in the Life Five Years in the Life is a Canadian reality television series which aired on CBC Television from 1968 to 1972. The lives of selected Canadian families were profiled in this series with the initial intent to revisit them five years later. However, public interest in the series caused the CBC to revisit featured families more frequently and to profile additional families. Profiled people included an architect, an Inuit artist, a Jamaican immigrant and a lighthouse operator from Newfoundland. The various segments were produced with numerous directors. This half-hour series was broadcast
Life expectancy used in the context of manufactured objects, but the related term shelf life is used for consumer products, and the terms "mean time to breakdown" (MTTB) and "mean time between failures" (MTBF) are used in engineering. The oldest confirmed recorded age for any human is 122 years, reached by Jeanne Calment who lived between 1875 and 1997. This is referred to as the "maximum life span", which is the upper boundary of life, the maximum number of years any human is known to have lived. Theoretical study shows that the maximum life expectancy at birth is limited by the human