Doesn’t it seem a little depressing/unfair. That of a very oldest people, almost none are men?

[Anonymous]

Wikipedia has the list of the top 50 alive and only number six and number 16 are male

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Not really, I’m willing to bet the two men on that list are married and a majority of the women, if not all of them, have already lost their husbands if they didn’t marry in the first place. Statistically, married men live longer than single men, but married women live shorter lives than single women. I could give a whole feminist tedtalk about why that is but I don’t think you want to hear that.

[Anonymous]

Depressing? Sure. Unfair? Not really. Women tend to form, nurture and keep a wide range of friendships and tend to be fairly self sufficient. When men die the widows do just fine after grief because they have support. When men are widowed they often lose the person who takes care of them (women still do most of the housework, family admin, social calendars and such) so he is often isolated and his diet/lifestyle suffers. Men often do not know how to keep social networks without women either so end up isolated. This can lead to substance abuse, depression and such... its sad but happens a lot. do in fact notice that my social network is much smaller than most girls that I know. I'm not even close to my family.

There's some other reasons, but for the most part, it's our own fault.

[provokeesmokee]

Men do generally die younger than women.