Thursday, April 18, 2013

Is fame killing us?

A recent study done by the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and the University of Queensland in Brisbane looked at thousands of New York Time's obituaries in order to see if fame could be linked to lifespan. It is already accepted that profession is closely correlated to lifespan; high stress jobs usually decrease the lifespan of the worker. But does simply being famous decrease your lifespan as well? The researchers would say yes. The researchers took a thousand consecutive obituaries from the New York Times from 2009 to 2011 and analyzed them for race, gender, occupation, and cause of death. It was concluded that famous athletes and performers tend to have shorter lives compared to doctors, businessmen and politicians. The researchers concluded, Fame and achievement in performance-related careers may be earned at the cost of a shorter life expectancy. In such careers, smoking and other risk behaviours may be either causes or effects of success and/or early death." 

This is pertinent to me, because obviously, I will be very famous some day. I need to understand the health risks in order to be able to counteract them and design a sort of physiological system that I will be able to live forever in. 

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