What about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_of_mortality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_o... The people

What about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_of_mortality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_o... The people who live to be 120, etc are already stragglers. Also, there are a huge variety of statistical distributions with fatter/thinner tails, so "not statistically distributed" isn't a real thing... If you download some mortality data, start exploring it, and looking up previous work you will quickly learn all of the above. Try it out: http://www.nber.org/data/vital-statistics-mortality-data-multiple-cause-of-death.html http://www.nber.org/data/vital-statistics-mortality-data-mul...