[WingH]

this is true. Take 10 million couples and maybe 1 in 10 million, this happens, and this is what we hear in the news.

We never hear about the wife that lives 10 more years after their 85+ year old husband dies.

[pbhjpbhj]

Should be relatively easy to crunch those numbers - is there a significant reduced life expectancy for surviving widows/widowers?

I'd be surprised if this hasn't been tested.

[joering2]

Problem is, I cannot take a single person and perform such test yet 10 million thats why I was looking for some solid stats or research/paper.

Maybe you don't hear. My grandparents were together since about 16 and my grandmother passed away 12 years ago. And I never seen couple more in love, including my grandma having tatoo of his name on her chest, something unheard of and frown upon back in the days. And my grandfather is turning 94 this summer.

[nsxwolf]

I’ve thought the same thing about stories of South Korean gamers dying from marathon gaming sessions.

If a millions people have marathon gaming sessions day in and day out, doesn’t it only make sense that one of them will die in their chair once in awhile? Was gaming really the cause?

[EamonnMR]

Those cases are often Deep Vein Thrombosis[1] caused by not moving around enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_vein_thrombosis