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<p><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>Given that life expectancy in Roman Iron Age Europe was about 45, I doubt that there would have been much occasion for killing off the elderly, if there ever was such a practice among the Germani.<br><br>What Serbs did in the 19C is hardly evidence to support the notion that such a practice was known nearly two millennia earlier for a different ethnic group.<br><br>Edmund<br><div><span><br></span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:40:05 AM,
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<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;">The practice of killing the elderly was still alive among the Serbs in 19. century, practice known as Lapot. Some Serbs lived among the Germans, they are known as Serbs of Luzica (Lausic or Lausitz); this could be a connection.</span><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;"><span>Regards,</span></div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;">Amer</span></div>
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