One last holiday, etc. I think staying alive is partly a matter of the will.

Are more likely to be socially isolated, so I'm not convinced there's a causal link.

They needed to start with "why are older people who are more likely to die socially isolated?"

There's nothing like the double whammy of age and infirmity to do it, no matter if you're an extrovert or introvert.

That's another thing they needed to consider. In the healthy, isolated population, how many were introverts and were they more likely to die?

Oh, and what about older women? Talk about social isolation! Nobody wants a post menopausal woman around.

Another thing they failed to clarify is whether the isolated men had been recently widowed versus long time bachelors. Loss of a spouse is also a determinant for early death in both sexes.

This is a bogus study on so many grounds. They didn't ask any of the pertinent questions and only studied males.

And some *suicides* are passive, in that people just give up.