Study: Fame may 'lead to a shorter life'
UPI.com (blog) - by Kristen Butler - 9 hours agoIn a study of 1000 New York Times obituaries, singers, dancers, actors and athletes died younger than those successful in other professions.
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bangladesh-web.com/new/.../12281-fame-may-lead-to-a-shorter-lifeDhaka, Apr 18 (UNB) - Having a glittering career in the public eye may come at the cost of a shorter life, an analysis of obituaries in a US newspaper suggests.Price of fame may be a shorter life | Herald Sun
www.heraldsun.com.au/...fame-may...shorter-life/story-e6frf7k6-1 day ago – A SHORTER life may be the price of fame for performers and sports stars, ... achievement lead to self-destructive tendencies throughout life?... Study: Fame may 'lead to a shorter life'
In a study of 1,000 New York Times obituaries, singers, dancers, actors and athletes died younger than those successful in other professions.(0) ||British singer Amy Winehouse performs at V Festival in Hylands Park in Chelmsford on August 17, 2008. (File/UPI Photo/Rune Hellestad)License photoPublished: April 18, 2013 at 2:44 PMBy KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.comResearchers in Australia looked at 1,000 obituaries in the New York Times between 2009 and 2011, and found that performers and athletes tend to die younger than people successful in other professions, according to a study published in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine.
Researches at the University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales organized obituaries by the subjects' age, gender, occupation and cause of death.
The performance/sport occupational category included actors, singers, musicians, dancers and athletes. "Nonperforming creative" included writers, composers and visual artists. Business, military and political figures had their own category, as did professionals, academics and religious figures.
Performers and athletes died the youngest -- at an average age of 77, most often from accidents and cancer. Writers, composers and artists died at 79. Academics survived until 82, while those in business or politics made to to 83.
"A one-off retrospective analysis like this can't prove anything, but it raises some interesting questions,” Richard Epstein said in a statement, according to BBC News.
"First, if it is true that successful performers and sports players tend to enjoy shorter lives, does this imply that fame at younger ages predisposes to poor health behaviours in later life after success has faded? "Or that psychological and family pressures favouring unusually high public achievement lead to self-destructive tendencies throughout life?The authors note that the average age of death for men featured in a New York Times obit was higher than the current life expectancy of 76, by about four years, but for women, who can expect 81 years on average, it was lower by a little less than three years.
"Or that risk-taking personality traits maximise one's chances of success, with the use of cigarettes, alcohol or illicit drugs improving one's performance output in the short term?"
One explanation, the authors suggest, is that there were a greater number of women than men in the performance and sports obituary category than among the death notices for professionals. There were 813 obituaries of men and just 186 for women, the authors found.
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Fame may lead to a shorter life
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