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To: combjelly who wrote (217256)	2/4/2005 2:21:39 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572214

combjelly, Now my family has been relatively longed lived, everybody that isn't senile by their early 60's tends to stick around to their 80's or 90's. These days, they tend to be pretty active until the last couple of months where they are bed ridden. Much of the increase in life expectancy in most of the population has to do with the reduction in infant mortality and the ability to rescue people who might have otherwise died due to accindent or illness. That's what I meant. On my mother's side, people naturally lived faily long well into 70s, but one of her sisters died as a child and her brother died in WW2 while around 20, so the average is pretty poor. I will have to read more on the subject about changes in the 2nd half of 20th centure. The gains of the 1sh half of 20th centure are clear, as a result of elimination of malnutrition, better hygiene, better control of infections deseases. I wonder what the future holds in this area. Now personally, I plan to live forever. Or die trying... Me too. So we better plan on on working very long (or have a lot of children). <g> Joe