Life Expectency

Expanding an entry in this blog...

http://riswey.blogspot.com/2009/03/economicssummary.html

Just been looking around on the internet for data that I found years ago which showed that changes in "life expectency" are really changes in "infant mortality" of which there can be little doubt there has been a change.

What is most striking about the information that is available on this issue of life expectency is how it is used. There seems to be a serious struggle spear headed by the Americans to prove that their way of life and technology has led to the longest life span. For this they are supposed to be happier than those with a shorter life span. But, as I hope I have explained satisfactorily such thinking is nonsense. There will always be people with a longer lifespan than you and shorter life span than you. Thus are you supposed to feel happy and sad at the same time? The key is to accept what you have. In which case it doesn't matter!

To read...
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/08/life-expectancy-and-growth-of.html

Total Number of people ever to have lived is est. 106 billion (From Wikipedia). This means that with 6 billion alive today, about 100 billion people ever have died. Of this 55 million are attributed to the second world war. That means 1 in every 2000 humans who have ever died were killed recently in a 6 year period. The same page quotes a total of 144 million deaths in the 20th Century in wars and at the hands of various regimes: that is 1 in 700 of all the people ever to have died were killed by the state last century.

use exponential integration to calculate total deaths in 20th century to give proportion.

Argument that humans have been directly and intentionally a major cause of death to humans. Hopw ironic that we talk always of "the enemy" be it cancer or poor health, when actually we ourselves are part of the enemy! How the gods must smile when humans make bold statements of intent and purpose - the laugh will always be upon them as they kill the thing they proclaim love! (Good Old Greek tragedy seem to hold a profound truth of the nature of Narrative and personal egotistical narrative. Take the attempts by the West to "help" the "poorer" nations - when on one hand they have and cause the poverty and 2 they are the ones who are really poor!) Irony. to be expanded...