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78. The life expectancy numbers from olden days

Don't say what you think they do. Yes, the "average" life expectancy was low, but that's because the child mortality rate was so high, as was maternal death from childbirth.

If you could make it past 5 or 6 y/o, and if you were a woman who survived childbirth, you had a good chance of living into at least your 60s.

Really.

My great-grandparents were all born in the 1860s-1870s, and all but one of them lived to be 80+. The one who didn't make it died at 37 of an unfortunate horse riding accident, just like someone today can die young(ish) from a car accident. A gauge of how long he would have lived without the accident? Well, his three brothers lived into their 70s. His sister lived to be 98. His wife, meanwhile, made it to 106. All of his kids (four boys) lived into their 70s and beyond.

They were not unusual, because it was typical for people to live long lives, if they could survive the two biggest factors lowering average age expectancy in their day.