To live to age 100 or older in those days must have been as astounding as someone who could live to age 150 today.
I agree, bigbob. I’m surprised that so many DID live that long back then.
Regards,
I had some ancestors who lived that long (104 and 105), and my mother is still living at 100 right now. However, there were many more who died much younger, including my father who left us at age 56.
Some people live to over 100 today with no medical procedures, fancy diets or drugs.
Human genetics haven’t changed much over the last few hundred years so I suspect the percentage of such people hasn’t changed either.