“How about just being homosexual as the average life expectancy of a homosexual is about 46 years of age.”
Of course, in a study such as this, this factoid might make homosexuals a net positive for society insofar as they’ll have contributed much more to Social Security and Medicare than they take out. Smokers definitely are a net plus to SS for this reason. However, any such advantage could be quickly outweighed to the extent that homosexuals have a higher propensity to collect SS disability payments. I just don’t know the statistics on the latter.
The Canadian health system does what such things do best which is accumulate statistics and they have arrived at a surprising conclusion.
Those who live good, healthy, heterosexual, non-smoking, non-drinking, drug free lives do live a lot longer.
At the same time they have much longer end of life health care requirements and end up costing more than the abusers.