Dang, that is in fact a long time-- two weeks! I'd go nuts, if only because I always go nuts when I say I can't X for Y time. Even if I've gone Y time without X plenty of times before, making it a rule gives me cravings for X.

72 is about human average, actually. Medieval average was lower for several reasons-- if you made it out of early childhood alive, you could easily make it to fifty or better... if your lord didn't grab you out of your fields to come fight in a battle you weren't at all prepared for. If you were a man. If you were a woman, every pregnancy was taking your life into your own hands-- but if you survived until menopause, you could be old for a long time.

And I do wish infant mortality were possible for Sims-- apparently there's a hidden toddler death-by-electrocution animation somewhere, but nothing for babies. The only way I know of to kill an infant is the babbyroaster, and while part of me wants to make an invisible recolor so I can set up some kind of sacrificial altar, a) none of my in-game cultures really have room for a Moloch and b) that is so far from death by whooping cough that it isn't even funny.