"One in every four children won't live past the age of 5 because health care is not available."
Who knows what would have become of him if he had lived past 1870?
Seven died as children and three lived past the age of 73.
Her mother had 6 children, but only two lived past one year.
Most children who are born with the disease do not live past the age of nine.
She was thus the only child to live past the age of twenty-five.
Without surgery, she might not have lived past her 20's, he said.
They lived from 6 days up to 44 years past the time of their injection.
This one had already lived past its natural life span.
The girl, he knew, lived just past the end of the road, half a mile, perhaps a bit more, away.