Mortality Rates

[matthew mckeon]

In the paper today was an article about mortality rates among veterans of the Union army. Units that suffered a high loss rate during the war, the survivors suffered a higher rate of mortality in their postwar lives. The tendency was less among regiments that were particularly closeknit, recruited among a particular neighborhood or region.

 

[milhistbuff1]

Matthew,

What paper?

 

[matthew mckeon]

Sunday Boston Globe, the Ideas Section.

 

[matthew mckeon]

The article page D3, quoted Costa and Kahn, "Health, Stress and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans."

The authors(as far as I can tell) attribute the higher postwar mortality rate to combat related stress.

 

[milhistbuff1]

Thank you, I'll look it up.

 

[Hanny]

In the paper today was an article about mortality rates among veterans of the Union army. Units that suffered a high loss rate during the war, the survivors suffered a higher rate of mortality in their postwar lives. The tendency was less among regiments that were particularly closeknit, recruited among a particular neighborhood or region.

On a similar note the NC regiment that fired of TTG had an exceptional suicide rate pots war, and most left notes explaing they felt resposnsible for being the person who killed TTJ.

PTSD comes in a number of varietys, i have two myself, survivors syndrome is where you feel you let down those close to you by surviving and solve the mental empasse by not surviving. A had a close Friend in the RN, who did that post the Falklands conflict, all his watch died when the ship went down, more Uk service men have taken there lives than died in that conflict.