Johnny Appleseed: A History of Life Expectancy

Tahaa: I have two listener mails. They are both from Facebook and they are both about Johnny Applesy, Tahaa. The first is from Benjamin. He says that John Chapman died when he was 70 and that it was impressive given the life expectancy at the time was 40 years. While living to 70 is impressive, it's not far out of the expected lifespan of an adult at the time. Ah, so 40 is an average based on infant death as well as people that were living to be in their 70s. Right. And really, once you got past age five, you got a bunch of more years of life expectancy. Once you got to age 21,