Life expectancy is reducing

[elacsaplau]

Very interesting recent research has shown that life expectancy is reducing.

For many years, authorities had understood that life expectancy was increasing and incrementally attempted to align public policies to better reflect this phenomenon. Interestingly, the reversal of longevity improvements was discovered, like many great discoveries, quite by accident.

This discovery did not come from, as one might expect, some form of mortality study but rather from time sensitive research of voter intentions in the run-up to the forthcoming general election. The only controversy in all of this seems to be the identity of the person/party who made this ground-breaking discovery - such is the enthusiasm that each party seems to claim ownership of this and the consequent urgent need to realign public policies.

 

[odyssey06]

I think that just affects certain US states.

U.S. life expectancy declining due to more deaths in middle age

After rising for decades, life expectancy in the U.S. decreased for three straight years, driven by higher rates of death among middle aged Americans, a new study suggests.

www.reuters.com

But there is a conflict between present party policies which seems to want us to live forever (sugar tax, minimum alcohol pricing) and their reluctance to pay the costs of longer living such as pensions, nursing home care, housing supports etc

Really they should just let us drink ourselves to an early death if we want to.

 

[noproblem]

If true, like everything else we're told, it might solve a lot of the pension problems that vested interests love spouting on about.