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Old 05-20-2009, 06:11 PM
Walter Rego Walter Rego is offline
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The thing you have to remember about the so called life expectancy figures you read about is that they are very misleading. Those numbers are highly skewed by the numbers of infants that died during childbirth in those days or infants and very young children who died of diseases and illnesses that have largely been eradicated or are easily cured now. It's not like you would walk down a street in 1909 and hardly see anyone in their 50's, 60's 70's or even 80's. Certainly not as many people survived into their 80's and beyond as now, but I don't think there were that many people just under 50 on their deathbeds either.
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