Comment on In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties

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squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Yeah, a lot of people didn’t make it to the point of dieing of old age, but it wasn’t rare to see 80yo or even 90yo people.

People seem to think that a life expectancy of e.g. 45 years means that most people died at age 45, and that’s just plain wrong.

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