I'm not as much as help as I suspect Jer will be. I will say Maura, that I DID see my villagers crawling around in thier early 80's before they died. Sounds kinda awful, but still waiting for more to die. I still pause my games when I can't check in every hour or so. Which meaaaaaaaaans, Jer will fill up his cemetary before I do. I did put the 2nd game on 2x speed, only did as much research as was necessary and now only having villagers on farming and healing. I'm not doing the puzzles... my expectation is that villagers will die earlier - my goal is to answer the question: once the cemetary is full, will ages reflect the age of the person when I last saw them. I'm not looking for the "oldest" villager, but whether the stat remains correct. Unfortunately, in the first game, there is almost an 18yr span between the elderly and the next generation to go. So far, things have been on the mark. The age they died is exactly what's on the tombstone and on the stat board. (still haven't read the poems...gonna check in on my villages)