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Re:The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook? by jules on Thursday November 18, 2010 @02:40PM (#1918987)
According to world population on wikipedia it seems like more people live now than have died since year 1.
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Re:The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook? by jonathanbgood on Thursday November 18, 2010 @04:15PM (#1919283)
I read that this is an urban myth and actually only a few percent of the people who have ever lived are alive today.
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Re:The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook? by jules on Thursday November 18, 2010 @05:11PM (#1919487)
Ever lived != lived since year 1. That said I just looked at the table on wikipedia and did some simple calculations. In any case even if more people died since year 1 than are alive today, not many more died.

If you take ALL deaths, that does greatly outnumber the people alive today.

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