bereavement

A younger wife lowers a husband's mortality by about 11%. The same study finds she pays for it in her own life expectancy. The actuarial case.

Widowed men carry a mortality hazard around 1.27, peaking near 1.41 in the first six months. Abroad and alone, every buffer the figure assumes is gone.

For many, isolation in late life abroad is not a risk of the move but the structural endpoint of it. Each support decaying on age, distance, foreignness.