Quotation

Chang: "...It is quite common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet -- the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it is the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, "He worried himself to death", or "This thing or that killed him". Robert Conway: "Oh, very often." Chang: "And very true. Your lives are therefore, as a rule, shorter. Not so much by natural death, as by... indirect suicide."