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How many and why - Please respond

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I was just reading a recent post to the discussion group and noticed that another man in his 40's died from a massive heart attack, just like my Richard. In the past year there are have been 3 deaths of folks all known to me and all men in their 40's from massives. We have also known of 3 women all in their 40's who came home complaining of migrains, layed down to rest and never woke up - brain annurisms. Is it just me or does it seem like too damn many.
Thank you for your thoughts!
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Wow. That's awful! I feel like something is going on as well. I don't know if it's in our food, our air quality, or maybe life is just getting too stressful with all that's going on in the world and all of the terrible things we hear on the news. I am so very sorry for your loss. (((hugs))) Jen
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I think that there is definatly a point to be made that in the US we tend to be way to stressed, squish too much into our days, don't get enough sleep and eat crapy cheap low quality food because we either dont have the time to cook or we can't afford to eat right.
That might just be NJ.
starfish
starfish
Our society is part of the problem, not just our environment, but also the fact that we are living longer, eating more, exercising less, and the stress of day to day living is ever increasing.

Those factors as well as others are big contributors.

As far as anuerisms, I have recently been hearing of more of those lately, too...but those are generally genetically linked, so I'm not sure what the factor is on that, except maybe because it is more socially acceptable to talk about health problems in general, and aneurisms weren't mentioned much before.
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It seems like the death notices in our papers are more filled with young people than old ones. I don't know why this is other than the stress that everyone is under, and the way we deal with it. Rainbowmama
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I totally agree. It feels like it is surrounding me! Within the next 2 weeks after my son passed away, 5 other teenagers, aged 13 -19 passed away from Cardiomyopothy. Now all I hear about is this person passed and that person passed. It's driving me crazy!
deleted_user
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My Fiance Mike was 33 wen he died of a massive heart attack! I am so sorry for your loss.
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Wow thats pretty scary stuff. Sounds like alot to me, But if you think about our population status thats only a tiny tiny few.
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