The reason that folks die less married is simple - there are better odds that someone’s there to call 911 when you drop.
My first wife was a nagging harpy that she drove me away to divorcing her, and I was highly opposed to divorce.
My last child support payment is this month; I’m 48 and I would consider to start saving for retirement now, no longer being financially cripped except for...
The 2nd wife has ended up being a lying, cheating slut.
To hell with marriage. My oldest son at least, knows to never get married. This society has ruined the concept of marriage and so has its legal system.
I’d rather die simultaneously from ebola, stomach cancer, ricin poisoning and radiation sickness than get married again.
And if I could build a time machine, I would travel back in time to when I first started dating, and beat myself half to death with a baseball bat and then branded my younger self with a red hot iron spelling “Don’t ever marry anyone, you fool”.
Here's one way statistical analysis can possibly fool you:
It's a known fact that men die earlier than women. So, when you study only MARRIED men, you automatically eliminate the married men who died early. Thus, your sample starts out with only men who have already lived at least as long as their wife, while the sample of unmarried men is likely to be more random.