Why Do Europoors Live Longer Than "Wealthy" Americans? r/europe Smugness Is Beyond Belief

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People hide the deaths of relatives to keep collecting their gibs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato

Sogen Kato (加藤 宗現, Katō Sōgen, 22 July 1899 – c. November 1978) was a Japanese man thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010, when his mummified corpse was found in his bedroom. It was concluded he had likely died in November 1978, aged 79, and his family had never reported his death. Relatives had rebuffed attempts by ward officials to see Kato in preparations for Respect for the Aged Day later that year, citing many reasons from him being a "human vegetable" to becoming a sokushinbutsu (Buddhist mummy). An autopsy could not determine the cause of Kato's death.

The discovery of Kato's remains sparked a search for other missing centenarians lost due to poor recordkeeping by officials. A study following the discovery of Kato's remains found that police did not know if 234,354 people over the age of 100 were still alive. Poor recordkeeping was to blame for many of the cases, officials admitted. One of Kato's relatives was found guilty of fraud; his relatives claimed ¥9,500,000 (US$117,939; £72,030) of the pension meant for Kato.

https://www.iflscience.com/ig-nobel-prizewinner-debunks-supposed-blue-zones-where-people-live-exceptionally-long-lives-76078

"In 1997, thirty thousand Italian citizens were discovered to be claiming the pension whilst dead. In 2008, 42 percent of Costa Rican 99+ year olds were revealed to have 'mis-stated' their age in the 2000 census and, after limited error-correction, the Nicoya Blue Zone shrunk by around 90 percent and old-age life expectancy plummeted from world-leading to 'near the bottom of the pack'."

this is the real reason explanation behind the r-slurred argument made in the Euronews article

"This is a strong argument that a welfare state benefits everybody [including] those who would consider themselves at least middle class," McKee, who was not involved with the study, told Euronews Health.

In reality, the welfare state increases "life expectancy" because people are being paid to lie about death. Of course, the journ*list doesn't question that because it confirms his biases. The idea that ambient welfare money magically makes wealthy people live longer is obviously absurd

Relatives make sure grandma isn't registered as dead so they can keep collecting her pension.