Old people (over 85) die when:
1. They retire after working all their lives
2. Their spouses die
Statistically for some reason, if you keep working into your 80s, you will die very quickly after you retire. This is true whether you choose to retire at 85 or 95....
RIP Rooney. I was not your fan but vaya con Dios. I wish you a blessed Eternal life.
Have been noticing the same thing.
Best advice - don’t retire until you have other options - i.e. productive hobbies and interests.
“Old people (over 85) die when:
1. They retire after working all their lives
2. Their spouses die”
3. They go to hospital for a minor procedure and get an infection....beware
I’m going to guess, like Charles Schulz with Peanuts that they just can’t go on. It’s not a retirement, but they say it is. They’re worn out to the point where that’s all there is left. Maybe take a month or two off and then go. I don’t think they are ‘retiring’ to live off their wealth in any sense.
I suspect that part of that is if your body is winding down gradually, you may not notice the problem, but you feel retirement is more appealing than it was before.
He’d died from complications from surgery, but they never say what the surgery was for.
That is likely a spurious correlation. People who work until they are very old, likely retire because a serious health problem has arisen. So that the often die a short time later is like due to them having a serious health problem, not that they retired.
That is older people who get serious health problems often die whether they retired 20 years ago or 1 month ago. However those who recently retired appear to die frequently right after retiring, even if the reason they retired was they had developed a health problem.