Re:Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to ...
by NoPie on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:29PM
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There have been gains but one has to see it in the context of health life expectancy which in the UK currently is about 63 years.
Modern medicine helps to extend life expectancy but often those last 10+ years are miserable clinging to life whereas in the past once you got, for example, a chronic heart disease you would not survive very long. The healthy life expectancy in the past can only be a guess but probably not that considerably lower for certain classes.
Modern medicine helps to extend life expectancy but often those last 10+ years are miserable clinging to life whereas in the past once you got, for example, a chronic heart disease you would not survive very long. The healthy life expectancy in the past can only be a guess but probably not that considerably lower for certain classes.