"A hundred years ago, you were lucky if you reached sixty"

[Phoenix]

If you were a baby, you might well die before the age of five.
If you were a woman, you could well die of childbirth.

But most of my female ancestors, if they survived childbirth, were quite capable of surviving into their seventies and eighties. Going back to second great grandparents, only two died before sixty, and one of those was a miscarriage. I realise this is a self-selecting sample and will be biased, but where I can find both birth and death, my lot usually made their three score and ten. Is that your experience?