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What do you mean "died so young"? She seems to have been born in 1867 and died in 1934, meaning she was 66 years old. The average life expectancy in the US in 1
by capableweb 4y ago
What do you mean "died so young"? She seems to have been born in 1867 and died in 1934, meaning she was 66 years old. The average life expectancy in the US in 1934 was 63.3, so above average compared to a country (US) she didn't even live in.
- mitthrowaway2 4y agoUnless you want to argue that it was thanks to her study of radium that Marie Curie didn't die as a newborn, "average life expectancy" is not the correct statistic to apply.
- capableweb 4y agoAverage life expectancy aside, if someone died when they were 66, would you write something like "She died so young"?
- hinkley 4y agoChildren died, a lot. You're confusing the definition of average. The thing is that with all of our medicine we haven't much increased the age at which people die from being old. Plenty of 75 year olds back then, but they almost all had a sibling that died of a childhood illness. Mostly what medicine has done is vastly increased your chances of living to adulthood.
- capableweb 4y agoYeah sure, but regardless, if someone told you that someone died when they were 66 years old, would you say that they died "so young"?
- hinkley 4y ago25 year olds don’t. 70 year olds do. We had a friend who died at 55 from health problems. Lots of “so young”s to go around.