Naperville wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 1:25 pmExcellent document on life expectancy and mortality over the last few hundred years. A lot has changed. Even with my health issues, I'm hoping to hit 80+. I hope that all of you live a happy and long life too.
"Without public health measures and without effective medicines diseases were killing most people at a very young age."
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
Interesting stuff. I read parts of the article(s), but not all of it.
In terms of women living longer than men, I didn't finish the sub-article, but I can think of a few reasons why this could be. I'll bet a lot has to do with the comparative amounts of pressure and stress in life to succeed in providing for their families that men deal with in comparison. I'm not saying that women don't experience stress, but many men face stresses and pressures in life that they tend to internalize. Many men bottle up their emotions. This in turn often manifests in the form of diseases over time. Also, many family men have few male friends, or no friends at all, outside of immediate family, and maybe acquaintances at work. On the other hand, women in general tend to have support networks of female friends.
Another reason is that men take most of the physically hardest, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs.
A third reason is that far more young men tend to engage in risky, stupid behaviors than women do.
Another reason is that in armed conflicts, the combatants are overwhelmingly men.
Males also have a much higher rate of self-deletion than women.
There are always notable exceptions, though.
My paternal grandfather lived from 1871 - 1951. My paternal grandmother died near the same time, but I dont know how old she was.
Must have been considerably younger than my grandfather, because my dad was the youngest of 8 kids, and when he was born, my grandfather was already 50.
My maternal grandfather lived from 1893 - 1986. My maternal grandmother passed away in 1957, at only 50-something years old, from a heart condition.
Both of my grandfathers lived longer lives than either of my grandmothers. The only grandmother I ever knew was my maternal step-grandmother.
I've heard that the generation of kids today will be the first generation whose life expectancies are going to be shorter than their parents'.
Jim