This study was done to determine and compare the suvivorship curves of people who died prior to19 45 and after 1945. Many medical advances have been made in thiscountry since 1945. We have developed many new drugs, vaccines, and medicalequipment that have aided in prolonging and saving lives of humans. We have alsodeveloped many new techniques to test for diesases and this helps people get theproper medical attention before the disease gets to the point where it can no longer becontrolled. I would think that the general belief of most people is that the survivorship of mankindwould have dramatically increased after 1945 because of how far science has come inthat time. The lifespan of humans throughout history has gotten longer, because ofmedical advances. The deaths of the people studied will most likely not only be fromdisease or sickness but other causes, such as war, violence, drugs, automobiles, etc.Methods & Materials:We received a data sheet to collect the data from our findings. The sheet is two-sided,with blank columns to record the male and female individuals and the age of theirdeath. The age of death column is divided into five year intervals. One side of thesheet is to collect the information for those that died before and in the year1945. Thesecond side is for the data of those that have died after the year 1945. We went to the Cullowhee graveyard to collect the data off of all of the gravestones inthe cemetary. Since the graveyard is so big and not in exact rows, we had to be surethat be would not contaminate the data and duplicate the headstones, so we roped offthe sections to be sure not to. When examining the headstones, we looked at theheadstone and determined if they were male or female, by the name or markings on theheadstone. Second, we looked at the date of death to determine which class to putthem in. Third, we subtracted the year of death from the year of birth to determine theage of death. Afte...
