[Dragaera] A Teckla thought

[Kenneth Gorelick]

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On Sep 14, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Alexx Kay wrote:
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>>> 50,086 out of 100000 born alive achieve this, per the SSA; 24,183 make it
>>> to 87.
>> 
>> Is this data for newborns?  I don't personally know any people who've made
>> it past 80, but they were, naturally, all born many decades earlier.
>> (Anecdotes are poor data, of course.)
> 
> Born alive = newborns above.  And these numbers are pretty stable in the first world - iirc the biggest change has been reduction in deaths in childhood.
> 
> I guess if one doesn't visit nursing homes or hospitals regularly, or live in the Sun Belt, or have elderly parents or grandparents, one doesn't meet a lot of old people given the way we organize our society.
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>>> And of course one would think that practically any Teckla soul has a good
>>> shot of having been alive then.
>> 
>> Not so relevant, as I presume Teckla don't typically have access to
>> past-life regression.
> 
> This isn't entirely clear to me - Vlad I think has feelings left over from a very distant past life.  Many Teckla might have something of the perspective of having lived in freedom even if that was in other bodies.
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My youngest aunt is 80. Oldest is 94. My friend's mother in law is 99.