I’m thinking that if all of us were thrown back in time to say 1821, before there were all these medicines and modern conveniences, half of us would be dead within a year.
Exactly. Doing genealogy research, the weak and the unlucky died very young, dragging the "average" life span down, and the tough and lucky lived to very old ages.
66 posted on 01/15/2021 9:12:00 AM PST by asformeandformyhouse
(I've been listening to a lot of rap music lately. Mostly at red lights and stop signs.)