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Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Nov 22 2004, 07:01 PM
Did you know that tooth related illnesses killed thousands in year gone by...
I've read that London during the early Victorian period and before was like running the gauntlet.
""Life expectancy has increased steadily through history. During the Roman Empire, average life expectancy at birth was a brief 22 years. By the Middle Ages it had risen to about 33 years in England, and increased to 43 years by the middle of the 19th century. In the early 1900s, life expectancies in more developed countries ranged from 35 to 55. They have climbed to about 75 years today, and continue to improve. Meanwhile, life expectancy in less developed countries has gradually climbed, rising to about 64 years in 1995."""
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that really puts all of our bitching and moaning about trivial shit into perspective huh?
from now on, anyone who pisses me off (lets not get into how me being pissed off is a reaction to my own perception of an action
) i'm going to say
"Shutup, if this was the 1900's you'd be dead by now!!!!"
Basically according to that paragraph, we have almost doubled our life expectancy in the last 100 years ...
So ok, we live longer lives, have better material things, but do you think its better that our lives are longer? Do we treat our 75 years with the respect they deserve or do we waste half of them trying to figure out why we live for 75 years?!