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Depression supposedly is common with many older single people who live alone.
I've been depressed when being in a relationship, and depressed being single. Depression is like a lost ugly dog that keeps following me around everywhere I go!
My guess is home cooked meals play a big role. When we were single my wife and I both ate a much unhealthier diet than we do today. Some things just don't seem worth preparing for one person.
I disagree with this. I find cooking for one to be much easier and enjoyable.
Looking back I'm eating a lot more healthier now since my ex and I broke up mainly because I am eating out far less. I'm also eating a lot more salad these days and I love to steam vegetables.
Maybe I will now live longer, LOL.
But I do miss the companionship, just not the type I experienced at the bitter end. The stress of that I could have done without.
of course, they die earlier because there's nobody else to call 9-1-1 when they have a heart attack or stroke.
Working in a LTC/Rehab facility and tending to stroke victims, there's any number of these people, if they knew what they were facing, would have kicked the phone out of their spouse's hand when dialing 911 or shot her between the eyes!
There was an older man, who had had a stroke, along with other setbacks,
who was kept alive another long, long, neverending 10 years, with his wife tending to him daily, praying the rosary by his bedside. There are times I entered that room at nite to change his diaper, and being that he couldn't talk, one's eyes can always convey a message: Help me! She was deeply religious and refused to have the tubes pulled!
How painful it was to enter that room!!! Yet, one more statistic to married people living longer than single people!
If you catch this single person falling over from a heart attack somewhere, don't do it! don't do it!
Ok, so let me get this straight. This is how it happens, right:
A "scientist"(S) comes up to the person giving out grants(G):
S: We need 50000 dollars to conduct a research on influence of invention of pencils on Indo-Hispanic community of the South-Eastern region of Finland.
G: What is the purpose of such research and why does it have to be conducted now? And most importantly why should we finance it, instead of other projects?
S: Well... it is "very important and useful to analyze aggregate trends such as this".
G: Oh, well in that case, of course, here you go.
What did i miss?
I gave you an example of how this particular study is useful...insurance companies do need to know how much to keep in reserve for their policies so they have enough money to pay out when stuff happens. Knowing simple data points like "single or married" can help them price a policy and have enough in reserve to cover it. Thats just one example and I'm sure there are more. Do you think the census is also useless? You shouldn't take such a study as a personal attack. If you're single and want to stay that way then thats totally fine. I still think its useful to know what benefits being married might have so that you can mitigate your own negative effects (such as having friends nearby and eating well).
I gave you an example of how this particular study is useful...insurance companies do need to know how much to keep in reserve for their policies so they have enough money to pay out when stuff happens. Knowing simple data points like "single or married" can help them price a policy and have enough in reserve to cover it. Thats just one example and I'm sure there are more. Do you think the census is also useless? You shouldn't take such a study as a personal attack. If you're single and want to stay that way then thats totally fine. I still think its useful to know what benefits being married might have so that you can mitigate your own negative effects (such as having friends nearby and eating well).
If i used such study in pricing i'd get myself fired)) Look, i am not taking it personally, really. I am in a relationship myself. I just really wanted to know how the process works and see if there's any people here who do such work. Apparently there are not))
I've heard this before and I believe this. Granted, it needs to evaluate whether or not it is a good marriage. A bad marriage could kill someone earlier than being single.
But I would concur that a single person will probably keel over sooner than a happily married person. And I don't think it has anything to do with having someone nearby to call when you take a fall or pass out.
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