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[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

But we are living longer now. 35 years old is basically dead.

[-] parascent@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

The babies died making average age less. Doesn't mean those who got to adulthood lived to that age only.

[-] KredeSeraf@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Yeah. If you made it past 10 or so you'd probably live to at least 50, with 60-70 not being common but also far from rare. All those dying kids and babies really bring down the average.

[-] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's not get too crazy. There's a 15 year period where young men tend to get injured and young women tend to give birth that acts as a major filter. If you plotted death rates on a graph it would look like a trident -- that's life without antibiotics.

It's certainly true that elderly were not a rare sight, but those elderly who could be found were almost universally hardy of constitution or talented at avoiding danger. Quite literally the end of the bell curve.

[-] Torvum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Family having like 13 kids, only 5 maybe making it to teen age, daughter dies in childbirth, 4 kids to 50 type beat.

Population graph after penicillin is very telling

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