My dear old Dad hasn't dropped dead, just yet, despite having retired, at age 55, in the late 1970s, and despite the 'life shortening' stress of a 37 year RAF career which encompassed flying ops in WWII and other subsequent conflicts, some test flying, etc. etc, and which included being part of the pensions trough with which we rewarded the 'wartime bulge' who stayed in for a full career after the war....
He did work full time for another ten years after his retirement from the RAF though, did lots of flying and gliding, and still does a little consultancy, aged 80......... He still meets up with four of his wartime comrades every year on or near the anniversary of their having been shot down, too!
Top bloke!