27 club

[holy king]

if you never really step off the gas pedal since being a teenager, i guess 26 to 28 is about the time your body says "freck this, i'm going home".

 

[LucyDuke]

At this point, I think people are intentionally trying to be a part of the 27 club. I think this is the case with Winehouse. I think she intentionally wanted to die at 27. So there may be a tendency for on the edge musicians to really live dangerously at the age of 27 in an attempt to "martyr" themselves.

lolno

It's not significant.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I'm telling you Hendrix was killed.

 

[Yeekim]

So who else thought this is about EU upon reading the headline?

 

[Mise]

Well look at this link for 321 people - die young stay pretty - not sure if 27 is peak.

http://www.av1611.org/rockdead.html

Well I put that into excel and did some sums.

1 more person died at age 27 than at any other age (17 out of 297). Age 38 came 2nd with 16 deaths. Age group 26-28 accounted for 12% of all deaths. Age group 24-32 accounted for 33% of all deaths. For comparison, age group 37-45 accounted for 26% of all deaths.

1 more person killed themselves at age 27 than at any other age (3 out of 33). The median and average ages of all deaths in the list were both 37; the median and average ages of suicides were 33 and 35.

In other words it's not very interesting

 

[Camikaze]

This was on the SMH website:

Dead rockers' '27 Club' a myth, scientists say
Fame boosts the risk of early death for rock stars but the claim that the peril is greatest at the age of 27 is false, an Australian-led study published by the British Medical Journal has found.
[...]
But there was no peak in deaths at the age of 27.
On the other hand, musicians in their 20s and 30s were two to three times more likely to die prematurely than the general British population.
[...]
Three of the "27 Club" (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison) did not have a No. 1 album in Britain and were thus excluded.

 

[Disgustipated]

It's kind of silly excluding them just because they didn't have a #1 album.

 

[LucyDuke]

Yeah it's silly to base statistics on measurable things.

 

[Murky]

This is purely coincidental and is not caused by being a certain age.