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Being Happy Will Kill You

If you’re happy and you know it, death approaches: “Highly cheerful” people apparently die earlier than their “more reserved” peers, possibly because they engage in riskier behavior, or possibly because they’re so infuriatingly happy that they “com[e] to harm.” Wait. What?

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