Ancestors all around - millions of dead people linger in Americans’ memories
The shadow population of deceased relatives is over three times as large as the living population, explain USC and Penn State sociologists
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A USC Dornsife article reporting a demographic study that estimates how many deceased close relatives living Americans still remember and how those ties are distributed. Someone would visit to learn the study’s main findings about the size, age, and temporal patterns of Americans’ remembered deceased relatives.
- Model estimates 755 million ties to deceased close relatives
- Average remembered death occurred about 25 years ago
- Over half of remembered deceased were born before 1926
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