[ SECRET POST #3634 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3634 ⌋

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[The Crown]


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[Fandom: CSI/ Nick Stokes]


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[Matt Smith as Prince Philip in The Crown]


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[Green Lanterns]


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Comments

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[(Anonymous)]

"The natural human lifespan is only about 45. We keep people alive longer today with modern medicine."

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[(Anonymous)]

*facepalm*

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[dancingmouse]

That second part though, is not entirely untrue. Modern medicine does have a factor in longer lifespans.

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but of course that's true... well, true-ish. It was perfectly normal in medieval times for people to live 80+. It honestly really did happen. If someone survived into adulthood, chances are they would live fairly long lives.

There's this weird perception that the "average lifespan" in medieval times was like 35. I think people get confused when averages include infant mortality rates and stuff.

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[sarillia]

Yeah that misconception always bugs me.

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[diet_poison]

well, surviving into adulthood and then childbirth if you were a woman. those were the two big things that got people.

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[(Anonymous)]

While I dislike the "People only lived to 30" misconception, I also dislike the "Most people who survived childhood lived to 80" misconception. It wasn't super common to live to 80+ in pre-modern times. Not everyone makes it to 80 now and people got sick and hurt just as frequently in the past and there was less they could do about it.

Of course, people didn't just drop dead at 45 either, unless there was a health problem at work, like an accident, infected injury, disease, malnutrition, complications of childbirth, violence... everything that could kill you today could kill you then, and many more things were not survivable.

I've been listening to a podcast called the History of English that's about the English language but concerns a lot of English history, too, and it's remarkable how often kings kept dying before they'd had a chance to produce an heir.

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, setting aside the points being made about infant mortality, it's also confusing to talk about a "natural" human lifespan in the first place

That's not something I think really makes sense

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[(Anonymous)]

Why? Most animals have a natural life expectancy. You can expect a draft horse to live 25-30 years. An African Gray parrot averages 50-60 years. Humans are more variable, because while we've adapted to live almost anywhere, we also have this pesky habit of killing ourselves and other people with a kind of determination that's usually not seen in other species. Still, it would be fairly accurate to say that the natural lifespan of a human during peacetime in an industrialized nation is 75-90 years.

Re: What single sentence made you judge your co-workers?

[(Anonymous)]

It certainly helps, but it's not like everyone over 45 is some kind of freak of nature being kept alive artificially.