I was recently at my great uncles funeral, ad it got me thinking about long relationships, such as those between siblings and those between life partners, spouses. It was only the second funeral that I have been to, the other one being that of my Grandfathers. Both of these men were outlived by their wives. It's not an uncommon pattern to hear of the female outliving the males. It got me thinking, and indeed when I looked it up women generally outlive men by about 5 years.
I started doing a little bit of research into it and this is what I discovered:
Perhaps I could collate to this into a bit of a zine idea for thought bubble.
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