Re:Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years les...
by dmoy on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @11:59AM
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> it affects the average more than something like heart disease that usually kills men over 50.
If you look at the linked Twitter thing in the other comment chain here, you will note that this is not true.
The numbers are just very different - heart disease (~600k) is like 40x more than all homicide (~15k, varies by year). Even if heart disease only kills people the year or two before they would otherwise die in their 70s (which is not true, it kills a lot of 50-yr-olds too), it would affect the average less than homicide.
If you look at the linked Twitter thing in the other comment chain here, you will note that this is not true.
The numbers are just very different - heart disease (~600k) is like 40x more than all homicide (~15k, varies by year). Even if heart disease only kills people the year or two before they would otherwise die in their 70s (which is not true, it kills a lot of 50-yr-olds too), it would affect the average less than homicide.