Life Expectancy

I was at the gym yesterday, watching the TV, and I learned that in 1900, a person's life expectancy was only 47 years. Let me tell you, people, that is young, very very young. Today it's up to 78, which is still young, actually, but when I saw that number 47, it hit me something hard. Back in the day, you were most likely to die from infection, childbirth or an accident. Today it's cancer, heart disease or dementia. I like to think that I'll just die peacefully of so...

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