Single Men Die Younger Than Married Men….WTF?

[rebelandboltmanParticipant 640]

Well, if that is the case, and being dead is like when you close your eyes to go to sleep, I will die peacefully.

[FeralParticipant 98]

academic.oup.com/aje/article/174/4/379/137060/The-Rising-Relative-Risk-of-Mortality-for-Singles

The comparison group consisted of currently married individuals.

The research does not include most divorced men.

Most likely, it is skewed like so much propaganda against single men.

[SolidParticipant 7520]

Well, I don’t buy this research too, is too small e weak to be considered real science, but ok, let’s focus on the other points.

If married men live longe, note the [strong]IF[/strong], it’s because sitting in a couch is a thousand times more safer than do things like we do, because we don’t have a single c~~~ to bitch about where we are going. So let’s face, sitting in a couch or going in a bike trip around your country ? Sitting in a couch or go hunting and practice our survival skills ?

Considering this kind of men, well, [strong]maybe make more sense[/strong] the study. But let’s make this question more philosophical, what is dead ? You are dead when you stop living, right ? Now let’s face the facts, that men almost have no life after the marriage, he is submitted to a state or where he is right or he have sex, and in some cases, he end up with no sex and a c~~~ nagging all night long. [strong]IF[/strong] single men die younger, that means they are put in a coffin younger, married men die before, inside, just take longer to put them in a coffin.

[narwhalParticipant]

There’s a ton of problems with the conclusions drawn from these stats. The biggest problem I see is that the group of men who qualify as ‘dying by married’ have to have lived to the age in which they would get married in order to qualify. The group of ‘dying while single’ doesn’t require the man to live to any certain age first.

Just as an example, take two 18 year old men, both fully intent on getting married. One of them dies at 21 though car accident, before he has a chance to get married, while the other dies at 32 after being murdered by his wife. Statistically speaking the married man lived longer, but obviously, married life was very bad for his mortality. Scaling this back up, all the people who die young are going to be counted as ‘single’, negatively skewing the data.

So I think you’d have to only look at men alive after age 40 in order to truly compare apples to apples. I’d then consider what life choices a married man would make vs a single man. The married man will drop his more risky hobbies. He will changes careers to something less risky if possible. I’ve known several men who gave up the motorcycle, or traded in their police badge for an office job after getting married. It wasn’t through preference, but out of demand from the wife that her provider doesn’t take risks.

But say the married man is an outlier and doesn’t give up the motorcycle. Is likely to live longer because he’s married? Obviously not.

I think you ‘d really have to narrow it down to causes of death that could be related to married/single life…such as heart disease, stroke, etc. Even then people are naturally predisposed to these issues completely independent of relations.

I would even argue that people are going to seek out healthier partners when marrying. Thus it isn’t even that married people live longer, but that people with a better chance of living longer are higher targets for marriage. And of course, your natural genetic health doesn’t change when you get married or not.

So yea…garbage. Common sense makes more sense every time.

Ok. Then do it.

[BadgerParticipant 2277]

Hey, youse guys are making the jewelers, wedding planners, furniture stores, divorce lawyers, clergy, marriage counselors, and other businesses that rely on income from marriages very unhappy when you are criticizing these findings.

[CatsPawParticipant 423]

I know a lot of married men who would want to die sooner.
I dont know any single guys who dont want to live longer.

[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

Joey Cusack wrote:

What do you guys think about all this? I have a difficult time with articles like these because being single is truly where I want to be and I have been in enough relationships to know without a doubt that being single is healthier for me in every possible way.

My lifespan is completely irrelevant since life is not based on how old you get but what you do in it. I would rather do all i want in 20 years (from my current age not birth) then die at 36/37 then to live to a 100 with a wife and no amount of propaganda can change that fact.

But marriage does not even guarantee you a long either because it puts stress on men to provide for their family with the threat of divorce looming over them in where your ex c~~~ gets half your s~~~, your kids, the house, possibly the guns (if you she cries domestic violence the cops will take it which is why the US has bulls~~~ gun laws) etc.

And in my own family my grandfather died young (even younger then GG Allin one who planned on dying young did) and my uncle is already one foot in the grave at 40 who has already almost died at times because he does a man’s job and bust his ass in the freezing cold unlike being in a f~~~ing office.

Also i wonder how the study was taken did it include divorced men as singles or as married men? etc?

And finally to point out to anyone who could be confused where i am going with my life if i make it to my 38th birthday i ain’t killing myself but i want the mission complete in my youth just in case it either kills me or once it is done i die young.

I do not need regrets because after i married i had to put down the microphone and raise a family instead of being in a rock band or being a comedian or whatever i want to do because a family man cannot be up in a different city past 4am partying or being anywhere outside of wifey’s control.

Just an east coast asshole who likes to curse, If you get offended by words like fuck, cunt, shit, piss, bitch or any racial slurs then you just scroll down.

[MeisterParticipant 2093]

When a man becomes domesticated his testosterone drops.
Low testosterone is good for the heart.
That’s why women are less prone to heart diseases and live longer.

So if you stay wild and single you’ll enjoy life and die young.

Sounds good to me!

Monk

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