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Declining Life Expectancy in the United States

Declining Life Expectancy in the United States

Update: 2025-12-10
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How should we think about death and how it happens? Americans now die more often than our peers in other wealthy countries. What does that shortened mortality say about our lives? On this episode, we talk with Elizabeth Wrigley-Field of the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Population Center. 

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Declining Life Expectancy in the United States

Declining Life Expectancy in the United States