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But We Live Longer Today

Life was impoverished and brutal, perhaps even making death welcome. In the early cities people lived in windowless huts, on dirt floors, and were under constant threat from starvation or from the elements. Even the aristocracy in the middle centuries, died at about age 20. The cause of shortened life had nothing to do with the absence of vaccines, cholesterol medication, or MRI machines. It had everything to do with the reality of nature and the brutality of trying to eek an existence out of the land without the advantage of modern inventions. If today we toiled manually every day from the time we could walk, and were sustained with only meager insect-infested crumbs and rotten potatoes, we would not last long either, in spite of any modern medical measure. Infants, with their immature immune systems, would be particularly vulnerable and easily succumb to deadly disease. The 'old' (beyond about 35) would not have the resiliency and energy of youth and would succumb to the sheer stress of trying to stay alive. There would be no retirement or old folks' homes. If today we lived in crowded, vermin-infested cities where people threw the contents of their bedpans out the window into the streets (a common practice then), if we believed disease was caused by demons, and if it was also a matter of piety to keep the vile body filthy (it was 'sinful' to bathe), we would be dying like flies at an early age too, no matter how much medicine and surgery was offered. Pregnant moms weren't exempt from the hard life, either. They toiled in the fields and would barely take a break to give birth.

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