If you find the thoughts of death unsettling, disturbing, or scary, that’s only natural, but be thankful you live in Ireland and not Russia. The World Bank calculates that Russian life expectancy at birth is only 71 years compared with 82 in Ireland. The disparity is even more dramatic among men. In Ireland, it is 80 and in Russia, it’s 66.
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