Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
by sp332 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @10:53AM
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Well there are still >7 billion people that don't fit your categorization, which means only 93% of people who have lived have died. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-li...
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Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
by petejansson on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:42AM
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The article seems to say that the estimate of all who have lived is about 106 billion, so the number of currently-alive is estimated at about 6% of those who have ever lived.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote "Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living." I wondered if that ratio needed updating. It does, but not, it seems, in the direction I expected.