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Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., only lived 78 years, her death in 2005 seems premature since current figures for women in the U.S. is beyond 78. King’s parents lived to the ages of 99 and 91 (did not survive either parent by a full decade) and her siblings are 79 and 84 years old. Was it bad genes that reduced King’s lifespan below the average for U.S. women and below what seems to be a high average for her family?
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Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Coretta Scott King both died at only 78 years of age. To this day no definite cause of death has been determined for Roosevelt. I am curious though if it was miliary tuberculosis that she had could she have possibly lived longer? Her daughter, Mrs. Anna Halsted was very upset with physicians at Columbia Presbyterian in New York and said that her mother could have lived several years more. Its a shame that many of her contemporaries who seemingly had worse health such as Alice Longworth, Clementine Churchill lived far longer lives than Roosevelt. Sometimes quantity is more important than quality.
As for King who also only lived 78 years, her death in 2005 seems premature since current figures for women in the U.S. is beyond 78. King’s parents lived to the ages of 99 and 91 (did not survive either parent by a full decade) and her siblings are 79 and 84 years old. Was it bad genes that reduced King’s lifespan below the average?
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