Summary
Americans spend more time living with disease than people in other countries. A new study by the American Medical Association reveals that Americans live with illness for an average of 12.4 years, up from 10.9 years in 2000.
Women in the US experience a larger healthspan-lifespan gap than men.
Mental, substance-use, and musculoskeletal disorders are major contributors to this gap.
Globally, the healthspan-lifespan gap has also widened over the past two decades.
I’m fine with one last golden parachute. Whatever makes it stop
Counter offer. They all disappear themselves to some private island now and have no contact with the outside world outside of stuff needed to survive comfortably; in exchange we don’t literally burn them alive.
I’m willing to accept this offer. They can take air mattresses, I’m not a monster.