Why women live longer than man, that's unfair :-)

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You can see it in all the statistics, the longest living man is a woman from France? lived to 124 years. She died probably in 2005, is in the Guinness Book of Records.

Two of the longest reigning monarchs of British are women

Lots of reasons. There is some biological base but overall I would say women are more conscientious.
Like, men do things like drink and drive, use lots of drugs and alcohol, kill each other in urban gangs... I read all of those statistics. If you read statistics like comparation of gender in deaths in traffic, in crimes, in substance abuse you will see men are much much more likely to do those kinds of things. Highest mortality rates (in accidents and such not disease) where I live are men 18-24 yo. This is the age they do the greatest quantity of BS! and end up dead, unfortunately...

One reason, men don't seek help for their problems, mental or physical. ESPECIALLY mental. To ask for and seek help is seen as a weakness, and in our patriarchal society, NOTHING is worse than weakness.

Women do live longer than men in most societies--the stats bear that out.

But they are only stats based upon a macrocosmic view.

I don't think this should be inserted into the "Gender Wars."

That fact doesn't matter to me, though. As I'm a person, and I intend on living a long life, whether or not I'm a woman or man.

Life is unfair. I once knew a guy who had mild intellectual disability (but with an IQ high enough to be aware of it--and the limitations it caused) and who died of cancer in his early 40's. After he said that life was unfair because of his cancer and his intellectual disability, I realized that life has treated me pretty well.

I do say that women do have a longer lifespan than men. But one of the reasons i remember being told why it was a large gap between men and women was occupational deaths as men were more likely to work in occupations where the likelihood of death was higher, And women worked in safer occupations, This is slowly changing now days though

Here is a good article on the topic:

https://www.cmu.edu/CSR/case_studies/wo ... onger.html

It has always make me kind of sad to know that I probably won't live as long as women will, but you have to make the best of the hand you're dealt and the time you're given!

There has been research among monks and nuns (because of these having a similar living style), that showed that men and woman have a rather similar lifespan, when treating themselve the same way.

Causes that were meant, to why men die earlier. Less willing to go to doctors, being it for routine checks or when having illnesses, more men having unhealthier life styles and food habbits (as example by statistic more average alcohol/nicotine consume, more fat food)... As well that for earlier generations hard physical labor work was a factor,

I read that eunuchs live longer too. Testosterone is just bad for us. So if you are male and want to live longer... snip snip.