Why Americans Die So Much
U.S. life spans, which have fallen behind those in Europe, are telling us something important about American society.
America has a death problem.
No, I’m not just talking about the past year and a half, during which COVID-19 deaths per capita in the United States outpaced those in similarly rich countries, such as Canada, Japan, and France. And I’m not just talking about the past decade, during which drug overdoses skyrocketed in the U.S., creating a social epidemic of what are often called “deaths of despair.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/america-life-expectancy-spans-death-europe/620028/