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To: Ron who wrote (462635)	12/30/2020 2:52:20 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 543149

I'm concerned about my wife's brother: 64, has suffered lifelong from asthma and tends to have allergies to pets that drive that, and then he has a significant weight issue. So far he seems to be doing ok, but he is only a few days past the diagnosis.

To: Ron who wrote (462635)	12/30/2020 3:07:40 PM
From: stsimon	Respond to of 543149

I lived for many years in New England, which has a lot of old cemeteries. In studying life expectancy I used to look at the headstones to see how long people lived in earlier times. Basically, the people who died young in large numbers were infants, women in child birth, and soldiers during war time. Otherwise, unless you had a serious accident or other injury you were likely to live into your 70's or 80's not that much different than today. The Spanish flu years were different. Lots of people in their early adult and middle years died. There were so many that you didn't have to be a statistician to see it.