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Nicole Barbaro Simovski, Ph.D.'s avatar

This is excellent. Thank you!

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Max More's avatar

It amazes me that plenty of people in the past lived to even 50 or 60. The absence of antibiotics alone would lead to many deaths. In my 50s, I somehow got an E. coli infection that spread to kidneys. I was going into septic shock and stayed in hospital for 6 days. I presume I would have died without medical help. That's just one possible cause. There was nothing to be done about a burst appendix. Etc.

Also, I appreciate your detailed confirmation of what I have been saying: That a major part of the increase in life expectancy is not due to a reduction in infant/early childhood deaths. I have been saying it is about 50/50 which matches your number for life expectancy after age 5.

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