When stefan's mother hands him a rejection letter from the college he had been dreaming of going to for four years, stefan shrugs and says that he didn't really want to go to that college anyway. he says he had already decided to go to his second-choice school, which had accepted him a week earlier. stefan is most likely employing a defense mechanism, because he views the rejection letter as a

Life expectancy in the united states is (76.4 for men and 81.1 for women). life expectancy is not the same as healthy life expectancy. healthy life expectancy is the number of years a person is expected to live in this number is obtained by subtracting years spent in poor health from overall life expectancy. the world health organization (who) calculates healthy life expectancy in 194 countries. the united states ranks twenty-ninth in the world using this measurement, with an average of of healthy life expectancy. singapore ranks number one (76 years), and japan is number two (75 years).