1. United Nations: Demographic Yearbook, 1961, 13th edition. New York: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1961, Table 15. A very similar age distribution results when a cohort of 100,000 born in 1929 is tabulated in terms of the proportions who die in each age period. See Dublin Louis I. and Lotka Alfted J.: Length of Life. New York: Ronald, 1936, p. 12. The outlook for the future is suggested by a more recent life table for females in Canada. Of 100,000 babies born in the later 1950s, only 15% will die before the age 60. Seventy percent will be 70 years old or more at death; 42% will die past 80. See United Nations: Demographic Yearbook, pp. 622–676.
2. Statistics on the settings of death are not readily available. Robert Fulton reports that 53% of all deaths in the United States take place in hospitals, but he does not give any source for this figure. See Fulton: Death and Identity. New York: Wiley, 1965, pp. 81–82. Two recent English studies are also suggestive. In the case of the deaths of 72 working class husbands, primarily in the middle years, 46 died in the hospital, 22 at home and 4 at work or in the street. See Marris Peter: Widows and Their Families. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958, p. 146. Of 359 Britishers who had experienced a recent bereavement, 50% report that the death took place in a hospital, 44% at home, and 6% elsewhere. See Gorer Geoffrey: Death, Grief, and Mourning. London: Cresset, 1965, p. 149.
3. Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (translated and edited by Gerth H. H. and Mills Wright C.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1953, pp. 196–198. See also Weber Max: General Economic History (translated by Knight Frank H.), Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, 1950.