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The biggest contributor was death in childhood. Twain had made it past that. His conditional life expectancy as an adult was much higher than life expectancy
by graeme 4y ago
The biggest contributor was death in childhood. Twain had made it past that. His conditional life expectancy as an adult was much higher than life expectancy
- bell-cot 4y agoTo some degree, yes. But note that Twain's arguably-adult brother Henry (1838–1858) died in a steam boiler explosion. And his father John (1798-1847) of infectious disease. Then there were the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth, in the era before modern medicine or antibiotics...