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