Would You Prefer To Live In Russia Or Ireland?

If you find the thoughts of death unsettling, disturbing, or scary, that’s only natural, but be thankful you live in Ireland and not Russia. The World Bank calculates that Russian life expectancy at birth is only 71 years compared with 82 in Ireland. The disparity is even more dramatic among men. In Ireland, it is 80 and in Russia, it’s 66.

Russia ranks lower than North Korea in life expectancy, North Korea being one of the few notorious dictatorships Moscow Mick Wallace and Kremlin Clare Daly hasn’t got around to visiting. Russia ranks lower in life expectancy than Eritrea a country ravaged by civil war and famine for the past 30 years, with nowhere for their refugees to go because the three nearest countries are also neck deep in civil wars.

Russia is bombing Syria back to the stone age and there’s a good chance you might live longer in Russia than in Syria.

Russia has the world’s 11th-largest economy but ranks 96th in life expectancy. In Russia, the chances of you dying by age 50 …