Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds

NYT ^ | 11/02/2015 | Gina Kolata

[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.

[King Moonracer]

At least they didn’t refer to us as “non Hispanic white”.

[Chode]

hard work and taxes will do that...

A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States. It’s 11:00 AM on a Wednesday.

He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, “Thank you Mr. American for letting me come into this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!”

The passerby says, “You are mistaken, I am a Mexican and here illegally.”

The man goes on and encounters another passerby. “Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America.”

The person says, “I not American, I’m Indian and here on a Work Visa that expired two years ago.”

The new arrival walks farther and stops the next person he sees, then shaking his hand, and says, “Thank you for wonderful America!”

That person puts up his hand and says, “I am from Middle East. I am not American. It was easy to get here via Arizona.”

He finally sees a woman and asks, “Are you an American?”

She says, “No, I am from Africa here on an Education Green Card that expired 10 years ago.”

Puzzled, he asks her, “Where are all the Americans?”

The African woman checks her watch and says: “Probably at work.

[TXBlair]

Anything to kick the bucket and escape this regime. Whiteys can’t wait to croak.

[DoughtyOne]

Good point. I would also attribute some of this to the disintegration of the family unit.

Stats make it clear the elderly live longer if they are married. This is particularly true for men.

[sparklite2]

Sorry, I find no nobility in suffering.
The anti-painkiller fetish is an extension
of the WOsD, in this case, legal ones. But
the same “we know what you need better than you”
is still operative.

[Psalm 144]

I don’t have time to die. I will be too busy attending the funerals of enemies.

[Sooth2222]

This is exactly how the Roman Empire collapsed and the Dark Ages were ushered in.

All the white guys who knew how to fix the plumbing died.

[ruination]

Being incessantly ridiculed in the media while being lectured that it is deserved, and losing a job and/or wages due to mass immigration can dampen one’s spirits, no?

I don’t think whites do too well in captivity.

[ruination]

That’s the spirit!

[rbg81]

Side benefit of the Regime’s policies

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Yup. Older, middle aged people lose their job. First, they are on unemployment, then they transition to disability.

After getting disability, they probably feel like they won the lottery. Then reality sets in. Feelings of worthlessness and depression deepen. Alcohol & drugs might provide a temporary relief, until you over do it. Then boom: you’re dead. One fewer White guy.

Mission accomplished as far as the Regime is concerned.

[Old Yeller]

Too many freeloaders on their backs.

[uncitizen]

Obama has been stressing us all to death for 7years...

[piytar]

Depression kills.

Being made the brunt of every joke is the MSM, treated like crap, run over if we are stupid enough to marry and then get tossed over, told our lives don’t matter, etc., of course we are dying off.

Enjoy the world you are creating without us. It won’t be a good one.

[Psalm 144]

“They concluded that taken together, suicides, drugs and alcohol explained the overall increase in deaths. The effect was largely confined to people with a high school education or less. In that group, death rates rose by 22 percent while they actually fell for those with a college education.”

Crystal meth is bad, bubba. M’kay?

[EvilCapitalist]

I’ll stay alive as long as it takes so that I can p!ss on Obola’s grave.

[piytar]

No. We just give up.

[Rome2000]

11:00 AM is the time the Federal “workforce” starts lunch.

[Will88]

I’d bet the biggest factor is diminished economic opportunity due to millions of jobs moved to cheap labor nations and many more being lost due to outsourcing and high immigration. Much more difficult to find long-term career jobs to support families and have reasonable economic security.

[CrazyIvan]

“I’m don’t have time to die. I will be too busy attending the funerals of enemies.”

Attitude has a lot to do with longevity. I predict a long and productive life for you. Remember to arrive at said funerals with a full bladder.

[Chode]

11:00 to 2:00, nothing gets done