Word: ded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Apparently some people have. A recently published study by researchers at the University of California in San Diego has suggested that people with "cooler" initials--such as ACE, JOY, WOW or GOD--might actually live longer than people with more negative ones, like BUM, UGH, ILL, PIG, ASS or DED. The study looked at five million California death certificates and singled out 3,487 men (whose names are less likely to change over a lifetime). The study included 2,287 men with decidedly negative monograms and 1,200 WINners and VIP-types...
...average, those who were ILL or DED died 2.8 years earlier than a control group, while the GODly lived an average of 4.48 years longer. Of the JOYful, 0.5 percent died in suicides and 2.5 percent in accidents, while 3.5 percent of the BUMlike took their own lives and 6 percent died in accidents...
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...Susan Ded is Hector's best friend, a college friend who calls him "darling" and has strong opinions, though love's treatment of her has made her opinions "less vivid." The story belonging to the Deds and the story belonging to Hector move along at roughly the same speed, and as Bill Ded hires prostitutes to call him dirty names, Hector loses weight; as Susan moves toward alcoholism, Hector is hospitalized...