Apolitical Staples

Now not the one you are thinking of, this gender gap.

...life expectancy rose in 2004 for both sexes, but the growth was stronger among men.
For men, life expectancy increased by 0.4 years to reach 77.8 years while for women it went up by only 0.2 years to 82.6.
The widest gap between male and female life expectancies was in 1979 when there was a difference of 7.4 years.
The gap in female-male life expectancy in 2004 was the smallest in the past 25 years, the government agency reported.

Hah! My wife has to deal with me a whole lot longer than if we were married a generation ago. We will have been married 53 years by the time I'm 78 - sounds good to me, but I may have driven my wife insane by that point ;)