The unusual minute: we are more likely to die on our birthday

Regarding suicides, we call it the “Birthday blues”, or the blues of the anniversary. In total, the study looked at more than 2,380,997 deaths. The excess of birthday deaths was similar in men (14.0%) and women (13.6%). When differentiated by age group, the excess varied between 11% and 18% among men and women over 60 years of age.

“We found that birthdays end in death more often than you might expect.”, conclude the researchers. This contradicts the idea that people tend to “delay” their death or bring it forward in order to avoid their anniversary.