[adamsilkey]

> most were lucky to make it to their mid forties

This is a common misconception. Life expectancy at birth being low reflects high mortality for infants and children. If you can make it into adulthood, most people lived for a relatively long time.

https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-n....

[sandworm101]

>>However, life expectancy at age 25 for landowners in medieval England was 25.7.

OK... 25+25 = 50 rather than 40. But that is for the wealthy, the top percentage who owned land. Everyone else would have been less. That is still about half of what we can expect today.