12 Reasons You Should NOT Retire Early

IT COULD KILL YOU

If you’ve recently retired early, don’t panic. In fact, congratulations — you’ve accomplished something many people dream of but never actually do. The reality, however, is that people who work past 65 live the longest.

Studies show that working just a single year beyond 65 dramatically reduces the risk of all causes of death, even when lifestyle, health and demographic issues are considered.

To be fair, a wide variety of variables are at play, including the fact that the data pool contains some people who retired early involuntarily because they were already too unhealthy to work. But even still, Bloomberg, citing another study, summed up the clear correlation between early retirement and early death as “striking.”