why do celebrities die young?

[PB666]

11 hours ago, Laie said:

In order to bring this back on topic...
Life Expectancy and Cause of Death in Popular Musicians: Is the Popular Musician Lifestyle the Road to Ruin?

The upshot is that it depends: Jazz musicians tend to have a higher life expectancy than the public at large and die from old age, while about half of the hip-hoppers are murdered in their twenties.

A few non-paywalled charts can be found here:
http://theconversation.com/music-to-die-for-how-genre-affects-popular-musicians-life-expectancy-36660

 

I dont know the average age at death is higher, 82-84 compared to those listed in the chart for jazz. The chart has an ascertainemt bias because hip-hop and jazz are not old genre's. Anyway the point is made, celebrities are risk takers. 

[Clockwork13]

On 4/22/2016 at 10:01 PM, tater said:

No. Mentally ill people are more likely to commit suicide.

@HebaruSan said it more directly than I did. It's sampling bias, nothing more.

You can be mentally ill (depressed) and intelligent at the same time.

[tater]

2 hours ago, Clockwork13 said:

You can be mentally ill (depressed) and intelligent at the same time.

Where do I say anything otherwise in what you quoted? The idea that celebrities might be disproportionately intelligent is an odd claim, however. Listening to them talk about serious things now and again is certainly not confirmation of that, they seem to be primary attractive as their "skill," not smart.

Depending on the source, the vast majority of suicides have mental illness (over 90%), so the better question might be what is it about mental illness that makes them more likely to be in the public eye? Or something similar.