I’m thinking along the lines of older spouse dies, younger spouse marries someone younger and becomes the older spouse. Then older spouse dies again and repeat. Has anything like this happened in a long enough chain to be significant? Is it so mundane no one cares?

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    7 months ago

    That’s a really interesting question, but I’m having a hard time seeing how one can look this up without direct access to an SQL database of all married people. Can we pay off some government sysadmin?

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    6 months ago

    This is the type of thing that could be answered if people followed banal statistical data the way sports people follow sports data.

    “This is the first time since 2017 they’ve scored over 30 points in the third quarter in a home game during the pre-season.”

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      6 months ago

      Honestly it would be kind of fun to hear those statistics. “This is the first time in 10 years SkipWapPallyPap has remembered an important before the date”.

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    IMO, rather personal, and not statistically valuable information. Someone would need to scour endless records from different sources combining the info together and at best, they’d end up with a Guinness world record entry of some sort. Depending on the quality and age of records too you’re likely going to run into issues distinguishing people of the same name somewhere along the line.

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      7 months ago

      True but that to me is why this question is kind of stupid. Luckily this community empowers me to ask questions like this.

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      6 months ago

      Nah just in general. I mean it would work even if they get married the day before they pass away as long as their spouse gets married again and continues the cycle.