Tem42 comments on Why people want to die - Less Wrong

49 Post author: PhilGoetz 24 August 2015 08:13PM

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Comment author: Tem42 25 August 2015 10:59:17AM 5 points [-]

This is true, but there was also a significantly increased risk of death in young adults from accidents and in women during childbirth; also, "nearly as old as we do now" still means a decade or so off the end.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 August 2015 11:04:52AM 9 points [-]

Yep, I checked from here and there's still 17 extra years for males and 21 extra years for females in 2011 compared to 1850 in "life expectancy at age 20".

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 26 August 2015 09:06:34AM -2 points [-]

More specifically, all the cells in the "2011" row of the "White males" table are around 40% larger than the corresponding cells in the "1890" row.