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Good morning, Daring Daily friends, so great to see you back.

We have been going through the six essential factors needed to scare the budgesus out of

your corporate pension plan provider and live into triple digits, 100 plus.

This final one is the most critical of all.

It is at the heart of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

This is what he deemed the major source of all human motivation.

But in modern culture, this human need is in crisis and it is killing us, literally killing

us.

I mentioned in the third essential how life expectancy dropped for a second year in a row

in the United States according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

A new study looking into the broader cause behind the decline says that it comes down to

one word, despair.

The author of the report stated that the decrease in life expectancy is actually less alarming

than the decline in emotional well-being of Americans, significant enough to drag down

the country's average length of life.

Yikes, right?

The resource points to the opioid epidemic as the leading cause.

There has been a 21% increase in overdose deaths from one year to the next and a 137% increase

in opioid-related deaths between 2000 and 2014.

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