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[LoGH] Life expectancy

Jerry Yen (momopi@mail.com)
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:58:41 -0500 (EST)


The life expectancy of Ancient Greece was 30-35, right?

It's not uncommon to find people living until their 80's-90's today.  My
grandparents all made it to their 80's, I think my grandmother was 84 when
she passed away.

If I told someone in Ancient Greece that my grandmother lived until she was
84, they'd think I was crazy.

Considering the medical and technological advances in LoGH, I think it
wouldn't be uncommon to find eldery folks in the 120-130 range.


Momopi

------Original Message------
From: jolan@home.com
To: logh@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Sent: December 13, 2000 11:35:38 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy


According to the LoGH novels, the life expectancy should be 100.  I forgot
where in the novels I got this piece of information, but I am rather
positive
about this.

"'Vejita' S. Cousin" wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Victor Xing wrote:
> > > What do you think is the average life expectancy in LoGH universe?
> >
> > Should be around 50, due to constant warfare, poverty in outlying
planets
> > and high crime rate.
>
>     But look at the technology they have (eg. replacement limbs), that
> most of the population isn't actually fighting and the outlying planets
> didn't look poor so much as rural.
>     I mean the world is pretty screwed up now and (in the USA) the life
> expectancy is ~74.  So I'm going to go with 90-100yrs old.
>
>    Mind you, you almost never see any old people in LoGH :)


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