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Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world by ddebernardy on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:36AM (#18174474)
Even life expectancy at age 25 is mostly meaningless, actually. Women mortality (due to childbirth) took a significant toll on the average life expectancy as well. And another two significant scourges were famines and epidemics.
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Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world by vasco on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:19AM (#18174656)
Well, if you take away all the mortality causes of the time you'll end up thinking things were pretty good back then, since people weren't dying in car crashes.
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Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world by sacado2 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:20AM (#18175694)
Yep, but life expectancy is not a very intuitive concept. When they read "life expectancy was 25 years", many people tend to think a 30 year old was some kind of lucky but senile guy back then. Dying of old age was just not the norm.
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Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world by Brockenstein on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:43AM (#18175877)
Dying of old age was a norm. There were plenty of old people way back when. It's just that lots of people dying young (well across all age groups) was the norm too.
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Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world by juskrey on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:27AM (#18175317)
Actually women delivery mortality became horribly bad with the invention of maternity hospitals and before the invention of sanitation.
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