I have been listening, in a bit of a hit or miss sort of way, to Radio4’s Book of the Week, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Todays final episode really kept me listening.
Constance Kent was found guilty in 1865 of the murder of her young half brother & served 20 years in the notoriously insalubrious Millbank & Parkhurst prisons.
On her release she emigrated to Australia where her brother was a noted marine biologist. She became a nurse, tended to patients during a typhoid epidemic & spent several years at a leper colony
Constance Kent lived to be over 100 years old, & died in 1944
Which just goes to show how unpredictable an individual life can be
The answer to the question What is the probability that I will die of X or that I will live to the age of Y is not some number between 0 and 1. It is either 0 or 1
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