Research: Unemployment plays role in early deaths

Unemployment can be deadly, especially for men, researchers have found.

In the new study, investigators analyzed 40 years of data from 20 million people in 15 countries and found that being unemployed increases a person's risk of premature death by 63%. The quality of a nation's health-care system did not affect this level of risk, the study authors noted.

They also found that unemployment boosts men's risk of premature death much more than it does women's risk (78% vs. 37%) and that the risk of death is particularly high for people younger than 50.

"We suspect that even today, not having a job is more stressful for men than for women," Eran Shor, a sociology professor at McGill University in Montreal, said in a university news release.

When a man loses his job, it still often means that the family will become poorer and suffer in various ways, which in turn can have a huge impact on a man's health by leading to both increased smoking, drinking or eating, and by reducing the availability of healthy nutrition and health-care services

Funny thing is (figuratively), SOMETHING is always going to be the reason for your demise. What I have gathered in my short existence in this body & mind is that waking up in the morning gives way to the potential of you being taken out.

Now we can add "unemployment" to that list, more so apparently if you're a male.

Soooo, one could speculate (especially being a member of ATS) that the current unemployment dilemma could possibly be an NWO depopulation project.

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First thing that came to my mind, while reading this, was activity and lack of a daily routine.
Unemployed, for some, means they will be more adventurous. More time to do more things, than if you are trapped in a routine of wake, work, eat, relax a minute, then sleep, and repeat. More activities, along with other random events, could possibly make the risk of certain types of accidents, much greater.

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This should be taken with a grain of salt. There are unanswered questions here that are very large, making me seem like it boils down to the final sentence - we need to spend more money on the unemployed.

Are they factoring in the chronically unemployeed? Is someone on the street included in the statistics because it clearly is not their lack of work that is killing them.

Are folks who are chronically on welfare included? Those folks who are apart of the generational dependancy that we have?

What about folks who simply decide to take a few years off to travel, have a child, deal with a sick family member, etc. Are they unemployed?

What about folks who lose or quit their jobs and decide that they no longer need to work?

This net of this may be true. If it is they need to be a bit more thorough in providing data to support the claim. If they are suggesting that folks with full time jobs who lose their income and are having a difficult time finding work and paying the bills have health issues, I would be astonished if they did not. Stress is a killer.

The problem here is that they don't provide enough detail to enable you to understand what their definition of unemployed is

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The problem here is that they don't provide enough detail to enable you to understand what their definition of unemployed is

I concur, which makes me lean more towards the "waking up everyday" is hazardous to your life, despite all these contradicting "Health Warnings" that we are so inundated with in the MSM. One day Coffee will be a cure all, the next story it leads to this and that disease or condition.

I've decided, just live and be happy with what ever life throws at you while you have the ability to do it. Death, can have just as much of a silver lining as anything imo.