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Fight Against Excess Mortality: the Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives
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Fight Against Excess Mortality: the Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

I describe the concept behind the group Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives, in which the financial interests of insurance companies (specifically, life insurance companies) align with helping people to live longer, sometimes with some relatively simple interventions to improve health outcomes. There are upcoming conferences and talks (some free!) so check out the show notes.

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Episode Links

Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives

https://www.insurancecollaborationtosavelives.org/

Upcoming events

Society of Insurance Research 2023 Annual Conference

Date(s): September 10th-12th, 2023

Where: The Westin Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Open Industry ICSL Presentation

Date(s): September 21st, 2023 from 11 AM-12 PM CST

Where: Zoom Webinar

Did you see us at one of these previous events? Join the team, ask questions, dig deeper.

Go to events page for more details.

A Few Graphs

Death poetry

(which is life poetry)

https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night

Do not go gentle into that good night

Dylan Thomas

1914 –1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44107/holy-sonnets-death-be-not-proud

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud

BY JOHN DONNE

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,

And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well

And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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STUMP - Death and Taxes
Meep (Mary Pat Campbell) talks about mortality trends and/or public finance issues, usually with a connection to current events.