Dating : Single men and Women death rate
Just a little article I read on the death rate for married couples and single people .
Men have a 32% earlier death rate than married men. Women have a 23% earlier death rate.
Worst case scenario , men will die 8-17 years earlier than they would if they were married.
Welp, 8-17 years is what it’s looking like for me boys! At least I won’t have to be here those 8-17 years all lonely and shit.
How does this make anyone feel?
It makes me feel resigned to my bad luck, but happy that I now have 2x the money to support myself?
Motivated
I’m actually surprised it isn’t opposite–at least for men. I feel like, percentage-wise, there are more unhappy married people than unhappy single people.
It doesn’t make me feel anyway.
Obviously this is for the *whole* population of single people, so it doesn’t actually tell you much.
For example, I expect we’d see different numbers if we looked *just* at the people who didn’t pathologize their singleness. If you maintain rewarding platonic relationships and an overarching sense of meaning and direction in your life with passions, community, and productive work, would this effect disappear?
Heck, it may put you so far above the average married person that the effect might *reverse* for you.
So those stats are a little misleading. I just read an article on this that said that the higher death rate was in men who were single due to divorce or death of a spouse. The longevity rates of people who stayed married and those who stayed single were the same. So the cause of earlier death rates is just massive change.