Yeah. I read 30 to 40%. I can't imagine the heartbreak.
So the comparison between her and sixteen year olds a century back is less misleading that you might think.
Not really but if you wanna go with that, fine. You should read mortality sheets. Plenty of teens died of mysterious ailments. Women died in childbirth. There were no guarantees and medicine was not what it is now. It isn't the infant mortality rate that made life expectancy 40 yrs old.
“Yeah. I read 30 to 40%. I can’t imagine the heartbreak”
That was basically the plot setup of that movie “The Yearling”. Kid was the sole survivor of mom’s 4 children. It was a believeable plotline back then.