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Re:Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to ... by oblio on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:39AM (#26645590)
And dodging simple infections that would have killed us. Dodging diabetes or what have you disease that we can now treat.

Modern medicine is a miracle and we're too jaded.

Re:Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to ... by maweki on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:42AM (#26645986)
A few years ago there was this atlas obscura article about all the deaths in one region in britain over the course of a year. Quite a lot of people died after tripping and either being cut by their knives or just acquiring an open wound in a different way.

Then they die a few days later.

Maybe with some notion of natural aging, life expectancy is quite similar. But chances of getting there are way higher now.