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- From: mw@ki.fht-mannheim.de (Marc Wachowitz)
- Subject: Re: mathematician's marrying ages.
- Message-ID: <zj#nqr9_@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 09:49:44 GMT
- Organization: Fachhochschule fuer Technik Mannheim
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- Juhana Kouhia <jk87377@cc.tut.fi> wrote:
- : I have also read about how some elder people die soon after the dead of their
- : wife/husband.
- Two points about this:
- 1. "Some" doesn't yet indicate a general corrleation.
- 2. Even if it were "many", that might still be interpreted as strong attachment
- and inability to let the past pass away.
-
- Be careful with concepts of "humans are meant to ..." - the presence of a fence
- doesn't imply you have to stay enclosed. You might as well build a gate,
- jump over it or remove it.
-
- : Having many friends is not the same than having a caring living partner.
- Right, quality and quantity need not be related - but quality doesn't imply
- "partner" either (assuming you mean it in the sense of living together for a
- longer time).
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