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Retire and die
Are you sure you want to take early retirement?
http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archiv...research-shows
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The researchers found that healthy adults who retired one year past age 65 had an 11 percent lower risk of death from all causes, even when taking into account demographic, lifestyle and health issues. Adults who described themselves as unhealthy were also likely to live longer if they kept working, the findings showed, which indicates that factors beyond health may affect post-retirement mortality."
“It may not apply to everybody, but we think work brings people a lot of economic and social benefits that could impact the length of their lives,” said Chenkai Wu, the lead author of the study.
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04-28-2016, 07:19 PM
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How come those CEO' who sit on their ass all day but can afford healthcare like most people in the rest of the developed world live so long? Retiring and sitting on your ass all day will put you under real quick.
There's a reason the stats of the USA look like a 3rd world country to the World Health Organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mortality_rate
2012 we were 37, 2015 we are 38.
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04-28-2016, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by CarlV
How come those CEO' who sit on their ass all day but can afford healthcare like most people in the rest of the developed world live so long? Retiring and sitting on your ass all day will put you under real quick.
There's a reason the stats of the USA look like a 3rd world country to the World Health Organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mortality_rate
2012 we were 37, 2015 we are 38.
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04-28-2016, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by CarlV
How come those CEO' who sit on their ass all day but can afford healthcare like most people in the rest of the developed world live so long? Retiring and sitting on your ass all day will put you under real quick.
There's a reason the stats of the USA look like a 3rd world country to the World Health Organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mortality_rate
2012 we were 37, 2015 we are 38.
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You're right, the affluent live longer. Better cardiac care, better diet, and less exposure to carcinogens, would be the big three probably. Also, better doctors.
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04-28-2016, 08:56 PM
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You're right, the affluent live longer. Better cardiac care, better diet, and less exposure to carcinogens, would be the big three probably. Also, better doctors.
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Access to good health care is a major factor.
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04-28-2016, 09:43 PM
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I've been retired for 4.5 years and I love every minute of it.
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04-28-2016, 09:50 PM
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Gramps lived to 96 and mom is still camping at 89, so I guess I've got some years left. Besides, there are still some rightwing nutjobs left that I haven't pissed off.
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04-28-2016, 10:09 PM
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I've been retired for 4.5 years and I love every minute of it.
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I've been retired for over 8 years and I love every minute of it too.
Work Sucks a Big Donkey Dick.
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04-29-2016, 09:59 AM
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I too retired in 08. When asked how I'm enjoying retirement my canned response is "beats workin."
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My Dad had to start working at 14, it was the Great Depression and he was left with no choice, (His father was an alcoholic, incapable of holding a job.). He didn't retire until he was 68. In fact, he too didn't want to retire even then because he had the same ideas in his head that so many people seem to be adopting today; That ANYONE who stops working for any reason is a "bum", etc., etc.....
After he retired, all of that changed. He saw the light. At 68, he was finally free of the yoke.
I am tired of people who don't see that what's going on here is that union pensions, Social Security, Medicare......All of these things made it possible for people like my Dad and his generation to stop working at an age where they were still young and healthy enough to enjoy the free time before they pass. They have convinced a sizeable portion of our current workforce that this is somehow shameful, that it's "welfare" and so on. It has no other purpose than to create an environment wherein work can only be escaped by death or dependency upon relatives, not even after one grows too old to continue.
The Republican Party despises Democracy, despises collective action, hates it when workers look out for each other, despises dissent against their ideology, (Under the notion that their way is the "American Way".) Anyone who complains, strikes or protests is a "pussy" or a "whiner"..............
Can it get any more obvious what that's all about?
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04-29-2016, 12:14 AM
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What is it with Republicans trash-talking retired people? You want to work forever, wearing out your knee pads under the board room table? Fine. Whatever trips your trigger........
I don't, I hope to be done with it at 60 and I don't give a rats ass if you don't like that, you obnoxious "holier than thou" right wing assholes. "Look at me, I worked until I was in my eighties!" Well, good for you. I intend to have been goofing off, doing whatever the hell I feel like doing for at least 20 years by then. To each his own. You do your thing, I do mine.
Now fuck off.
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