sanitation@lemmy.todayBanned from community to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 9 days agoThe ineffective Democratic leadership ain't going away unless we make them.lemmy.todayimagemessage-square64linkfedilinkarrow-up1384arrow-down113
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minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·9 days ago When this country was founded, there was no way to conceive that we’d live for 80+ and people would hold an office for their entire life Ben Franklin died at 84 in 1790 just 2 years after serving as President of Pennsylvania… but okay.
minus-squareBeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoI wonder how that compares to the average life span at that time. It’s not unheard off but it was rarer back in his time than ours.
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 days agoLargely averages from back then are skewed by child mortality rates. Looking at the median age of adults at death results in a number around 75 for the late 1700s. He lived a little longer than the norm but not by enough that it was an anomaly.
Ben Franklin died at 84 in 1790 just 2 years after serving as President of Pennsylvania… but okay.
I wonder how that compares to the average life span at that time. It’s not unheard off but it was rarer back in his time than ours.
Largely averages from back then are skewed by child mortality rates. Looking at the median age of adults at death results in a number around 75 for the late 1700s. He lived a little longer than the norm but not by enough that it was an anomaly.