Epilepsia
. 2017 Nov(Phone number can only be seen by the question and answer creators). doi: 10.1111/epi.13902. Epub 2017 Sep 28.
Potential years lost and life expectancy in adults with newly diagnosed epilepsy The article you cited is from 2004. This more recent publication from 2017 has a much better outlook. Probably in part due to newer drugs and treatments. It is a problem for newly diagnosed patients though

Life expectancy is a highly complex biostatistical formula based on numerous assumptions that differ for each study. It is impossible to distil the study down to just one simple conclusion like that. These things are multi factorial. It may be the case , for example, that mortality is correlated with something else like quality of life which for many sufferers is quite poor. If you look at general life expectancy in the UK for a UK non-smoking male with no obvious morbidities, it is 80 years old. However many people liver longer than that and some much shorter. You need to look at the SE and SD and CI on the study too. Another study I have heard of says that positive people have been know to live for up to 5 years longer than negative people so chin up!

You can’t really say when you go to heaven. That’s God’s choice so I don’t believe that stuff about life expectancy with seizures

thanks! could you put *this one* in lay terms?