Very interesting.
I've heard that seventy is the new fifty....or something.
My father in law died the other day.
Next month he would have been 103.
He died from sorrow. He was in perfect health (for his age). His daughter (almost eighty) died unexpectedly . After her funeral he just grieved himself to death. He'd already lost two wives (one of fifty years of marriage, one of twenty, sequentially) and another daughter...(my wife)

The cumulative load of sorrow was too much.

so he died.

Memorial services will be held in Hale Center Texas next Sunday...
Jack W. Smith.
A good man, No really...a truly GOOD man...a saint... The best man I've ever known.

(at one time I'd have guessed that there would be thousands at his funeral...theres still might be. He knew everyone is five counties. Today? not so much...he outlived them all. The grand children, the great grand children and great great grand children of his peers didn't know him.)

He had many, great, great grand children of his own....my grand kids for example.

(perhaps a great, great, GREAT, grandkid...I think one of my nieces was due)