Can Helping Others Extend Your Lifespan?

Question

Can lending a helping hand to others and volunteering for the community actually contribute to a longer life?

Answer 1

Indeed, frequent engagement in volunteer activities and using one’s time to support other people will increase joy, well-being and health, which will help ease stress and fight off disease. In reference to various studies, clinical psychologists have been able to establish a certain fact. Those who are in the habit of doing voluntary work on a regular basis tend to have a longer life span than those who do not involve themselves in any such activities.

Comments

I love volunteering! I love to hear people’s stories and enjoy lifting people up, they call me codependent, I call it kindness!

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i think the best way to win in life is by helping everyone win while you win as well as long as they put forth the effort to do so. the problems occur when people are denied a win for a long time for no good reason it's even worse if people cheat in order to deny a person a win. if you earn the right to eat sleep shower and have fun by working and not causing problems for anyone and paying your bills and taking care the people and things, you have in your life than no one should be allowed to ruin your chances of doing what you need to do as well as ruin your chances to have fun but if people still try to achieve victory by causing losses to others than you'll eventually be celebrating your victories alone somewhere and you will hate being alone which is why you cheat to win. if a person is starving to death i wouldn't blame them for doing what they need to do in order to eat, if a person that already has a nice house than why try to steal someone elses house so you can have 2.

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#11 was firmly agreeable to me.
We (probably) all have had "shitt jobs".
They over work you. They don't pay much. Sometimes the manager's crooked.
However; once in a while you find a "gem":
A crap job that doesn't pay much, but then again you don't DO much. (yet you feel productive).
I've had ONE.
Lots of little tiny perks, a dime more than minimum wage, and comfortable hours!
...but then again, I never asked for too much, either: "..when I was TWENTY - One .."✌ *(Frank Sinatra)