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Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds
NYT ^ | 11/02/2015 | Gina Kolata

Posted on 11/02/2015 6:35:08 PM PST by ruination

Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.

That finding was reported Monday by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton, who last month won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, and Anne Case. Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.

The analysis by Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case may offer the most rigorous evidence to date of both the causes and implications of a development that has been puzzling demographers in recent years: the declining health and fortunes of poorly educated American whites. In middle age, they are dying at such a high rate that they are increasing the death rate for the entire group of middle-aged white Americans, Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case found.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alcohol; amnesty; drugs; nojobs; suicide; whites
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To: Twink

LOL, right!


121 posted on 11/03/2015 1:32:08 AM PST by Eaker (The Bates Motel. Ain't nuthin' like it.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

...ergo the rise of HepC commercials on TV. All that partying back in the day is catching up with the cool people.


122 posted on 11/03/2015 2:13:25 AM PST by Mashood
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To: ruination

Absolutely right. Told for three decades they are worthless, they can’t help but be affected.


123 posted on 11/03/2015 2:56:15 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ruination

Our parents grew up on fruits and vegetables.....we Boomers grew up on Oreos, potato chips and Coke.......what else can we expect?


124 posted on 11/03/2015 3:31:00 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Hispanics did too, so why are whites dying at such higher rates?


125 posted on 11/03/2015 3:35:03 AM PST by ruination
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To: ruination

Stress increases death rate. The stress of having to seemingly support the world on your despised and overloaded old back.


126 posted on 11/03/2015 3:47:50 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: hopespringseternal

“Take God out of people’s lives and you soon find they no longer have lives.”

Not everyone is trying to look at it this way (and I may have missed someone else?) - but congratulations!!!:

You wrote the only post that accurately found the root cause of this shocking study. We all need to start thinking this way for just about every cultural problem we see.

The removal of Christianity seems to affect lower class whites much more than other groups (see C Murray’s “Coming Apart”) and that is mysterious.


127 posted on 11/03/2015 4:08:35 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Bikkuri
feel free to steal it same as i did 8^)
128 posted on 11/03/2015 4:32:49 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: ruination
The strategy of the left is mostly psyops: Talk us out of our confidence and obvious successes.

Guilt tripping is one way... very effective... but not if you see through it all.

This thread is proof that we need Trump. He is the only one of the candidates who doesn't whine about our supposed dismal condition. He motivates by pointing out that we can and will fix all of our current problems and emerge better and stronger.

And go back and read his earlier stuff. He has always been this way.

Anyway, FReepers, don't let the craven left talk you out of your legacy as Americans.

Let's get some perspective and restore the country.

129 posted on 11/03/2015 4:57:40 AM PST by caddie
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To: TXBlair

God’s waiting room,
anytown USA.


130 posted on 11/03/2015 5:03:03 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Timpanagos1; ruination
I don’t think middle age white people kill themselves over media attacks on middle age white people, nor do they commit suicide over immigration or because they believe they built the country

I think there is a lot of truth to that statement. It is hard to watch a great country go down the poop hole.

131 posted on 11/03/2015 5:10:49 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Timpanagos1
Why do you believe that white Americans are less able to handle economic hardship and jokes than people of other races?

Because white America pays the bills.

132 posted on 11/03/2015 5:13:50 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ruination

I’d buy the alcohol reason..
The last 7 years of Obozo govt has caused the alcohol consumption in this house to rise dramatically...


133 posted on 11/03/2015 5:34:16 AM PST by matginzac
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To: Twink
At first, I was just gonna say “nope” as an answer to your question.

Not everyone is/was familiar with urban/homosexual meanings to things.

I was sorry to have to tell you, but I thought you would want to know if you were unaware of it.

Perhaps you could change it to "Twinkle"?

134 posted on 11/03/2015 6:08:38 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DoughtyOne

I read the whole article in the WSJ this morning.

Drug overdoses (pain killers + heroin + meth + what have you) skyrocketed over 200% in 15 years.

Suicides increased around 100%.

Lung Cancer declines balanced out liver disease increases, so the smokers gave it up and started drinking.

So the key driver was drugs. The onset was when Oxycodone hit the streets and doctors were told not to be frugal with it. My ex-wife is my ex-wife in part because of this effect. Mexican brown heroin is probably a close second in this effect.


135 posted on 11/03/2015 6:52:47 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("The bipartisan project is to destroy conservatism" .. "Cruz is a thoroughbred conservative." - Rush)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Thanks for the info Uncle Miltie. Sorry about your relationship.

Losing them is tough. All the best to you.


136 posted on 11/03/2015 7:16:26 AM PST by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: ruination

Would that group include Hispanics?


137 posted on 11/03/2015 7:21:23 AM PST by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: Twink
We aren't allowed to be made of stronger stuff?

Not allowed? The only one who can stop us is our selves and our misunderstanding

We are made and intimately connected to the One who spoke the Universe into existence with a WORD! There is nothing stronger nor more intensely creative than that ! It overcame death! That power is pure LOVE.

If we but believe and ask Him, We are filled to overflowing with that same power.

No one can stop us

138 posted on 11/03/2015 8:14:31 AM PST by Red Boots
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To: Chode

:D


139 posted on 11/03/2015 9:34:45 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: central_va

I am just not willing to believe that white people in America have some kind of genetic mutation that causes them to suicide due a perceived hardship.

Heck, my dad and his generation went through war and economic collapse that makes today look like a church picnic and they did not kill themselves. Anyone who believes these are the most difficult times in American history is a damn fool.


140 posted on 11/03/2015 10:38:36 AM PST by Timpanagos1
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