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Guilt fueling rising white mortality

 Latent guilt, not diminished economic or social well-being, is more likely the cause of rising White mortality.  A March 2017 Brookings article by Ann Case and Sir Angus Deaton, Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st century, suggested the shocking increase in mid-life mortality among White non-Hispanic Americans is primarily caused by “deaths of despair” from drugs, alcohol, and suicide. […]