Lifetime-mass relation (Eq. (25)) of the present model (black) compared to data of Lamers & Gieles (2006) for 100 M_⊙-cluster remnant (light blue) and the parametrisation covering the results based on N-body calculations of Ernst et al. (2015) used in Paper VI. The red line corresponds to underfilling clusters, the green dashed line represents Roche volume filling models, and the blue dotted line is for overfilling models.