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Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world by sureaboutthis on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:08AM (#18174600)
It's a sobering fact that, when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world by adam12 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:34AM (#18176781)
For others who would like to know: Mozart died at 35.

From Wikipedia:

The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on 5 December 1791 at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation. Some principal sources of contention are as follows.

* Whether Mozart declined gradually, experiencing great fear and sadness, or whether he was fundamentally in good spirits toward the end of his life, then felled by a relatively sudden illness. The former hypothesis was accepted for most of the history of Mozart biography, but the latter has been advanced by contemporary scholars.

* The actual cause of his death: whether it was from disease or poisoning. The poisoning hypothesis is widely discredited. If a particular disease was the actual cause of death, then it remains unknown; only plausible conjectures can be offered.

* His funeral arrangements, and whether they were the normal procedures for his day, or if they were of a disrespectful nature. Modern scholarship generally supports the view that the funeral arrangements were normal for Mozart's time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Moza...