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Old 11-05-2011, 08:29 AM   #9 (permalink)
Nihility
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Originally Posted by Junkenstein View Post
Besides the jokes that will drop all over the place, when he said he was retiring, my first thought was that he would die shortly after.

seems like people like him, who work until they're octuagenarians, die as soon as they retire (unless he retired BECAUSE he was ill). Its like they have no reason to survive when their only purpose ceases.
It's as you say, maybe retired people die because they stopped working or they stopped working because they were dying.
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