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Average life expectancy aside, if someone died when they were 66, would you write something like "She died so young"?
by capableweb 4y ago
Average 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.