My grandfather was a smallish man of Welsh, Scots, English ancestry who lived to be 98. All his siblings except the youngest lived into their 90’s, and one lived to 103 or 104. I have heard that large men tend to die sooner.
“I have heard that large men tend to die sooner”
Hope not! My husband is a tall and broad guy.
I don’t think so.
My dad is 83 and 6’-5” tall. His grandmother died at 98, and she was 6’-1” tall in her stockinged feet.
Ditto my grandfather from Scotland.
Short, thin, (130 pounds, maybe?) lived to 93, in New York.
His son, my father, also Scottish born, was a few inches taller, always thin but a few pounds heavier, lived only to 83 - back in 1999.
You said you heard large (meaning tall?) men tend to die sooner, but did I read once that really tall men usually have good arteries - - - because they’re good and stretched out, or something?
Help, somebody!
Same here. The colonial welsh ancestors all lived into their eighties when they lived on the farm in chester county. Philadelphia/ city dwelling colonials had half the life span. Must be the epidemics and alcoholism concurrent with higher population density.