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A 2026 analysis of 488,765 people followed for as long as 32 years found that a stronger sense of purpose in life was associated with about a 30 per cent lower risk of earlier death
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A 2026 analysis of 488,765 people followed for as long as 32 years found that a stronger sense of purpose in life was associated with about a 30 per cent lower risk of earlier death
The reading almost everyone reaches for first is the one to be careful with: find a purpose, live longer. It is tidy, hopeful, and it turns a statistical link into a personal instruction. The study behind the number does not actually say that, and the researchers who ran it are the first to admit it. We are not clinicians, psychologists, or physicians, and nothing here is medical or mental-health advice. This is our reading of a large observatio…
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