[MR] About that "They die Young" myth

[Weaver8002 at aol.com]

In a message dated 06/12/2001 5:08:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
katrous at yahoo.com writes:


> Reading demographic history was pretty
> boring, but some stuff I recall. Like 1/5 of all women
> died because of childbirth, which obviously hapened in
> the first half of a potential average life span. 

If you check the old cemeteries in this country, you will see the same thing 
happening.  Women in their late teens through early 40's were dropping like 
flies.  Women between their late 40's and early 60's rarely died.  If you 
survived childbirth, you had it made.

Margherita la Tessatrice.
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