Re: Sometimes you just can't win

Paul Ciszek <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
archmage@xxxxxxxxxx (Nate Edel) wrote:
My impression is that somewhere around 21-25 it goes from being
a bad idea to a merely neutral personal choice.

And never to a good personal choice?

Married people do live longer on average. I'm not sure whether
anyone's checked on whether that's because marriage is good for
you or because sickly people are less likely to get married.

I thought that was only true for men; and single women lived longer
that married women. I know that some orders of nuns have had problems
with their members "living too long".

My impression is that it was a positive for men above a certain age, and
neutral for women (who are statistically likely to outlive their husband in
any event.)

I'm also not sure given the demographic changes etc that those studies are
likely to reflect much on the correlation of marriage at say, age 30 or 40,
to eventual life expectancy.

If anyone wants to engage in some Google-fu to track down some actual
numbers, it would be interesting to see them.

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