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That's very common. Basically all elderly people of note have obituaries written by reporters on staff so that an article can be gotten out quickly if the subje
by jhbadger 3y ago
That's very common. Basically all elderly people of note have obituaries written by reporters on staff so that an article can be gotten out quickly if the subject dies suddenly. Not uncommonly, the targets of the obituary are of a higher class and have better medical treatment and so live beyond their obituary writer.
- shadowgovt 3y agoPerhaps worth noting that he lived 13 years past the time the obituary was penned.
- actuallyalys 3y ago13 years past how long a contributor to the obituary lived. The contributor may have started work on the obituary even earlier and probably did, as Kissinger was 87 and it probably would have made sense to pre-write the obituary sooner.
- hulitu 3y agoIt really doesn't matter. Those writers are immortal. The only thing that would change such an obituary, is a regime change.
- whatshisface 3y agoThat last sentence is a massive step beyond common knowledge, if it's true... and I don't think it is, what can doctors do?
- dnsco 3y ago> The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of individuals was 14.6 years (95% CI, 14.4 to 14.8 years) for men and 10.1 years (95% CI, 9.9 to 10.3 years) for women. Second, inequality in life expectancy increased over time. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/#:~:text=The%20gap%20in%20life%20expectancy,life%20expectancy%20increased%20over%20time https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/#:~:tex....
- koolba 3y agoI really doubt a writer for the NYT is going to be in the bottom 1% of income or wealth.
- tempestn 3y agoThat's a very interesting study. I'm surprised the relationship is so linear through all the way through the income percentiles, aside from the very bottom few. I would have expected a relative plateau in the middle.
- bhk 3y agoBut from the same paper: > One such theory is that health and longevity are related to differences in medical care. The present analysis provides limited support for this theory. Life expectancy for low income individuals was not significantly correlated with measures of the quantity and quality of medical care provided, such as the fraction insured and measures of preventive care. The lack of a change in the mortality rates of individuals in the lowest income quartile (Figure 1) when they become eligible for Medicare coverage at the age of 65 years further supports the conclusion that a lack of access to care is not the primary reason that low-income individuals have shorter life expectancies.
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- xkekjrktllss 3y agoThe reasons have much more to do with much better diets, getting better sleep, not working stressful and physically demanding and dangerous jobs, etc.
- singleshot_ 3y agoI’m interested by the notion that the Secretary of State has a less stressful job than a guy writing obits. I mean, even if you’re only a cabinet officer for a couple years, that’s gotta take more off your clock than a lifetime of typing news articles with a deadline of “eventually the subject of the article will die.”
- ceejayoz 3y agoBeing fabulously wealthy helps a lot.
- da_chicken 3y agoTurns out that being able to afford a better life leads to a longer life.
- Phileosopher 3y agoGenetics play a huge part as well. From birth, we're given a death clock, which goes downward as stressors hit us, then further as we relive that stress. In other words, everyone would probably live to ~110 in a perfect, stressor-free world.
- pnw 3y agoIn this case, Kaufman died at 71 of an incurable cancer though.
- account42 3y agoIncurable by the time it was caught and even then "incurable" can sometimes end up being curable with a ridiculous amount of resources.
- rmk 3y agoJust curious. Was Kissinger a smoker? And was he an Ashkenazi Jew? Because he'd have risk factors from smoking, and would also be likely to have some known genetic predisposition to certain illnesses.
- SiempreViernes 3y agoThe guy died at a age of 100 dude...
- vasco 3y agoThey might have more money but there's no higher class.
- whycome 3y agoCommon? Give us another example
- Joeboy 3y agoSee here for some recent obits written by Ronald Bergen, who died in 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ronaldbergan https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ronaldbergan