The 1988 North Sea oil platform tragedy saw 167 men die, the world's worst such incident.
Despite improvements for both sexes, men die almost twice as often from heart disease than women.
And why boys and men die earlier than girls and women from nine of the 10 leading causes of death.
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Since men die, on average, five years earlier than women, those much bemoaned visits to the doctor for a routine physical must play at least a minimal role in the difference between XX and XY longevity.
FORBES: Why Do Men Die Earlier? (Hint: It's Not The Ladies' Fault)
But what the press failed (or deliberately decided) not to scream in lurid prose (or even acknowledge in many cases) is the fact that the study also concludes that women marrying older men die earlier too.
According to data from the National Cancer Institute, three out of 100 men will die of prostate cancer.
CNN: Let men decide on prostate screening, cancer society says
Also this year, an estimated 243, 620 men will die of cancer - one death for every 2.36 new diagnoses - and 182, 670 women will die, one for each 2.50 new diagnoses.
MSN: Men who have cancer more likely to die from it, study finds
But as America and Russia have learned, when something goes wrong and men and women die as a result, that attention is then focused not on a national technological triumph, but on a symbol of humiliating failure.
And obviously we all defend our Constitution and the First Amendment and free speech, but we also believe that when men and women die in the service of their country and are laid to rest, it should be done with the utmost honor and respect.
If the trend is mirrored in China, half of an estimated 200 million men who smoke could die from tobacco-related diseases in the next three decades.
Cancer specialists know that because prostate cancer is usually a slow growing disease, many men are likely to die from other causes before they would die from prostate cancer.
CNN: Let men decide on prostate screening, cancer society says
In addition, a Norwegian study found men who never married were 35% more likely to die from cancer than married men.
"If you take an average of the 10 most common cancers, men are more likely to die in seven out of the ten, " he added.
MSN: Men who have cancer more likely to die from it, study finds
Those who quit 10 years before getting a prostate cancer diagnosis were no more likely to die of the disease than men who had never smoked at all.
And whatever one thinks about the spectrum of men's rights activism, there are important issues, like the fact that young men are three times as likely to die by suicide as young women.
Historically, men who get a diagnosis of prostate cancer have been nearly twice as likely to kill themselves and more likely to die of heart-related causes soon after their diagnosis compared with men in the general population, a study has found.
Each year, nearly 35, 000 men are diagnosed and more than 10, 000 die from the disease.
Thus planning for retirement is much easier for men, who tend to have more assets and die young.
Men are 70% more likely than women to die from cancers common to both sexes and 60% more likely to get such a cancer.
He said the service acknowledged how that generation - often known as the lost generation after entire villages of men were wiped out - refused to let idealism die.
In an analysis of cases of all but the sex-specific cancers like prostate and ovarian cancers, for example, men with the disease were more likely than women to die in each of the past 10 years, researchers found.
MSN: Men who have cancer more likely to die from it, study finds
Some 70% of Indonesian men older than 20 smoke, and 400, 000 Indonesians die each year from smoking-related illnesses, according to the World Health Organisation.
The two men did not expect to be successful, but they wanted to die trying, investigators said.
Overall, men with any type of cancer were six percent more likely to die of their disease than women with cancer.
MSN: Men who have cancer more likely to die from it, study finds
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