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Originally Posted by Pudding
On average I'd say older people die before younger ones.
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Depends on what you classify as younger and older. There are higher mortality rates in different stages of life, if you've made it to 60 theres a higher chance you'll make it to 80 for instance then if your 40... or even a teenager. In the victorian times the highest mortality rate was in the under 5's, so if you made it through those years you were pretty safe. Nowadays I think you'll find the most dangerous ages are teenage years and mid to late 40's...
Like I said before I don't think she should have had the babies but then that is because she had gone through the menopause etc. If she had really wanted children she should have done it a lot sooner, plus she was a single parent. I have nothing against single parents but rasing a child with two parents is hard, having one parent whos in their 60's is just unimaginable, its unfair on the children because whos going to pick them up when they fall over and cut themselves. There's an eight year gap between my brother and myself and my dad said there was a big difference in his ability to cope with a young baby.