Getting old

[pipi_k]

4. One thing I'm noticing

as I do my family tree is that a lot of ancestors on my mother's side lived to a great age, even 100+ years ago.

On my father's side, not so many. In fact, my 5th or 6th great grandfather and his wife had 12 children, and only 6 survived beyond childhood.

Quite a few of those who lived beyond 65 or 70 actually died of things that are curable today (like pneumonia, etc) and who knows how long they might have lived had the proper medications been available back then...