• cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    I expect Jimmy will be right behind her, he probably only stuck around this long so she wouldn’t have to be alone

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      I remember reading a paper about how the death of your spouse raises the probability of death by 30%, but it goes back to normal after 6 months.

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        I knew a girl whose father died a week after her mother’s body was found (they don’t know how long her mother had been dead, but at least a week) and they were divorced. But he never gave up hope until she died. And this was in high school. Imagine losing both of your parents within a week and you’re still a teenager.

        Thankfully, she turned out okay.

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        On one side my grandfather died roughly 6 months after my grandmother died. On the other side my grandmother outlived my grandfather by 33 years and counting.

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        Any potential link to that article? I don’t disbelieve you, I just want to be able to discuss the information in the future with confidence.

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          I learned it in Hassan Zadeh A. and Amirhashchi S., “Modelling Joint Lifetimes of Couples by Using Bivariate Phase-type Distributions”, that paper should be easily to find in Arvix. The referenced paper, “Young, the mortality of widowers 1963, Lancet”, it’s pretty hard to find but I got my university to pay for a copy for me, if you DM me your email I can send you a copy.

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        What’s the causal factor for the increased mortality rate? I hear it’s “a broken heart” but that isn’t really a medical diagnosis.

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          It is called “broken heart syndrome”.

          "Broken heart syndrome is a condition that can cause rapid and reversive heart muscle weakness, also known as stress cardiomyopathy.

          What causes broken heart syndrome? Two kinds of stress — emotional or physical — often cause broken heart syndrome. But while most people with this condition experience a stressful event, up to 30% of patients have no identifiable trigger at the time of their initial symptoms.

          Emotional Stressors Emotional stressors include:

          -Grief

          -Fear

          -Extreme anger

          -Surprise

          source

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          They’re statistics and actuarial sciences papers, not medical ones. They are not bussy looking for the underlining reasons of why that happens, bit how can be measured to make better models.