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Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> posted:


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> He died on March 18.  There's 20 column inches of achievements, 
> honors, etc., before getting to:  The people he is 'survived by' 
> includes (of his own generation) his wife, four sisters, and two 
> brothers.  The text leaves me unsure, but I think that he was 
> pre-deceased by one of his three children. 
> 
> I've read before that studies of historical records generally show
> that 'genetics' does not play much role in living to old ages. This
> looks like a family whose DNA might give clues to the opposite
> conclusion. I do not recall hearing before of a 94-year old leaving 
> behind six siblings. 
> 
Some families do seem to have lots of long-lived people. My paternal grandmother's
family was like that and was famous for it. I have records of 16 people related 
to me who lived to 95 or beyond; of these, 7 were from my grandmother's family 
(she herself only managed 89).

Not a good statistical study, of course, especially as matters are complicated
by the fact that people tended to live longer in the 20th century than in earlier
centuries. My mother was a few days short of 99 when she died. One of her sisters
only managed 78, but her other sister reached, 97 despite being a very heavy 
smoker (up to 60 cigarettes a day at one time) for years.


-- 
athel

Living in Marseilles for 39 years; mainly in England before that,
with long periods in Singapore, California, Chile and Canada 

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