Where you live may affect how long you live. Researchers at Mississippi State have found that people who live in the south and along the Atlantic coast have a high mortality rate. Those living in the Great Plains, Southern California, the Texas/Mexico border and Arizona had the lowest mortality rate.
"Living in the Dakotas may lengthen your life," said a researcher. "Time, however, is relative to the observer. Those living in North Dakota actually live several lifetimes during the course of week. It is because they are bored. There. Do you get it?"
Iowa also had a very low morality rate. It is hard to die in Iowa. Everyone's just sitting around with a cattail in their mouths, talking about the weather. Shining sun. Some wind. A fish jumps. The sun sets. We all go home to sleep. It is good.
Doctors hope to use these facts to figure out what is killing all these people. First they need to figure out which people are dying because they are impoverished and which people are dying of rich-people illnesses, like money on the knee or pocket change-induced scoliosis.
Doctors do know that the areas of highest and lowest morality tend to be rural, in economic decline and are being left behind by the younger generations.
Hopefully, our nation's MDs can find a cure for living in Mississippi.
This link will connect you to a doctor nearby, no matter where you live.
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