Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world
by vasco on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:19AM
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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
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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.
Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world
by Brockenstein on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:43AM
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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.