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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, they have great health care, but they also have a lot of good genetics going for them. Look how long Queen Victoria lived, before much of today's health care was available and when the average life span was much shorter than today. 
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Queen Victoria's health care was far above even the base standard of some of the LCs in developed countries today.[/quote]

True, but I have a few ancestors who had long lives who lived at the same time as or overlapped with Victoria. These ancestors, though, were all very poor, some lived in cities in essentially squalid conditions (think Charles Dickens novels), some immigrated long distances, some did this more than once. I doubt that they had access to much in the way of health care. The women gave birth to a lot of children. They had hard lives and had nothing going for them, but still a number of them lived into their late 70s, 80s, and even 90s. So, I do think that genetics plays a big role in whether or not someone lives a long life, in addition to outside factors. 
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