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retirement and early death

(86 Posts)
jinglbellsfrocks Mon 09-Nov-15 22:54:57

At least you've got a good name stillhere. Keep yer fingers crossed.

rosesarered Mon 09-Nov-15 22:54:31

That's why I started a cheese on toast thread...... We must stay positive.grin

stillhere Mon 09-Nov-15 22:53:05

grin

Ana Mon 09-Nov-15 22:49:11

We're all doomed - doomed I tell you!

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 09-Nov-15 22:47:38

For flips sake soon. Can you possibly get any more cheerful?!

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 09-Nov-15 22:46:53

WARNING

Don't read this thread if you intend to ever get out of bed again in the mornings.

hmm

soontobe Mon 09-Nov-15 22:42:25

Life is indeed very fragile.
Very sad for both those situations Anya.

I have been left wondering a couple of things lately. Particularly about those who have been in jobs such as teaching which can be stressful.
Have they had stress build up, and then, when they relax, it catches up with them in some way?

I probably have a couple of other questions too, but that will do for now.

Cherrytree59 Mon 09-Nov-15 22:37:39

I don't know soontobe. Perhaps they would have died anyway even if they hadn't retired.
I do know from personal experience many people who have died not long before retirement (saving the government paying pensions)

Alea Mon 09-Nov-15 22:37:04

Thank you Soontobe for that cheerful and uplifting note on which to end the day.
I retired 5 years ago and of my contemporaries who retired at the same time we are (touch wood) all hale and hearty.
Of course the incidence of death is higher in the over 60's/ 65's, but I think this is nothing more than simple coincidence plus an admixture of urban myth.
Or perhaps it is a conspiracy by the government to keep people at work unti they are 104.

Anya Mon 09-Nov-15 22:35:28

S2B I knew a Headteacher who collapsed and died at his retirement do. That was so sad. My ex-HT, a keen athlete anyway and very fit, took up cycling when he retired. He was knocked off his bike in February and died at the scene.

Life is very fragile.

soontobe Mon 09-Nov-15 22:22:57

In rl, I see and hear and know, about several people who die within about 12 months of retirement.

I dont know if this has anything to do with the area I live in, though I doubt it.
And of course it may be due to age[in the main early 60s].

On the whole, they are men. And have been stressed at work. [Different kinds of work, but mainly people related jobs, though some manual jobs too].

Do others know about this? Or am I rather alone in happening to know so many that it happens to?