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Yes, as I was saying, people didn't live as long then. Glad you figured it out.That's life expectancy, not life span. Life expectancy is an average of all deaths. In 1940 people had to deal with diseases that we don't now. That brought life expectancy down.
Yes, life expectancy increases with developments in medicine and such. Glad you're catching on.But more people are doing it now [living longer] because of medicines that have been developed.
"Plenty of people" most certainly did. Most did not.But plenty of people lived into their 80's back then.