retirement and early death

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

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

We're all doomed - doomed I tell you!

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

WARNING

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

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.

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)

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.

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.