Tony Pottrell wrote: > Forgot to add this to my earlier reply, but there's also an element of > reminding people of their own mortality. If it's happened to their > ancestors then there's the "then it can happen to me" aspect, > particularly with hereditary conditions. Yes, well, it will happen to them, just like it did their ancestors. No one lives for ever, although we are living longer now than our ancestors. There was a time when getting to 50 or 60 was a great age. Nowadays, if we see/hear of someone dying at that age, it's more a case of s/he died young. Let's face it, we're born to die!

This is an interesting point. I know what you meant but overall we're not living longer than our ancestors. It's just that more of us are reaching a decent age and there's less infant mortality. My 5g-grandmother reached 96. My 2g-grandmother's father, grandfather and g-grandfather all barely reached 50 but she carried on to 92. Her mother, grandmother and g-grandmother (the 96-year-old) all got into their 80s and beyond. Most of my direct line reached their 3 score-and-ten, if not more. I'm sure others also have the same to report. I wonder when the first person lived for 100 years ????? Francis Auckland, NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Firebird" <sparrer@gmail.com> To: <essex-uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [Ess] Details on Certificates > Tony Pottrell wrote: >> Forgot to add this to my earlier reply, but there's also an element of >> reminding people of their own mortality. If it's happened to their >> ancestors then there's the "then it can happen to me" aspect, >> particularly with hereditary conditions. > > Yes, well, it will happen to them, just like it did their ancestors. > No one lives for ever, although we are living longer now than our > ancestors. There was a time when getting to 50 or 60 was a great age. > Nowadays, if we see/hear of someone dying at that age, it's more a > case of s/he died young. > > Let's face it, we're born to die! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message