However, whereas those who failed to achieve longevity are dead, a proportion of those who failed to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary are alive but widowed.
At my father's golden wedding anniversary, a former official of the college was proposing a toast and told this story.
She was 103 when she flew on an airplane to celebrate the golden wedding anniversary of one her sons.
Clear evidence of this trend is the record number of golden wedding anniversaries and even longer marital jubilees.
