Suicides and drug overdoses are two reasons for a continuing decrease in how long Americans are expected to live. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported recently that there were more than 2.8 million deaths in the United States in 2017. Of those, 47,000 were suicides and 70,000 were drug overdoses. If you want to understand why life expectancy is decreasing in America, the state of West Virginia may offer some answers. Maggie Hill has lived in West Virginia for all of her life. Hill, who is 67, told the Associated Press about the many deaths in her family. An older brother drowned in a flood. A sister died in a house fire. Two siblings, both who smoked, died of lung cancer. Two others died at birth. Her first husband died of heart failure. Then there were the suicides. Two of her three sons shot themselves to death. Her second husband killed himself one Sunday morning while she was still in bed. “I don’t think people have a lot to live for,” hill said. “I really and truly don’t see things getting better.” Dr. Michael Brumage is a public health expert at West Virginia University. He used to run the health department in Charleston, West Virginia. He said, “It seems that the worst outcomes happen here first.” Among the 50 American states, West Virginia has the second- lowest life expectancy, behind only Mississippi.
Title: Why Is Life Expectancy Falling in US?
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3040/a96cacb9-cfff-401f-b6a8-9158201d0442_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Why Is Life Expectancy Falling in US?' data-article-id='3585'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12042'>Suicides and drug overdoses are two reasons for a continuing decrease in how long Americans are expected to live.</span> <span data-start-time='12042' data-end-time='26229'>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported recently that there were more than 2.8 million deaths in the United States in 2017.</span> <span data-start-time='26229' data-end-time='35417'>Of those, 47,000 were suicides and 70,000 were drug overdoses.</span> <span data-start-time='35417' data-end-time='47583'>If you want to understand why life expectancy is decreasing in America, the state of West Virginia may offer some answers.</span> <span data-start-time='47583' data-end-time='54188'>Maggie Hill has lived in West Virginia for all of her life.</span> <span data-start-time='54188' data-end-time='62354'>Hill, who is 67, told the Associated Press about the many deaths in her family.</span> <span data-start-time='62354' data-end-time='65896'>An older brother drowned in a flood.</span> <span data-start-time='65896' data-end-time='69042'>A sister died in a house fire.</span> <span data-start-time='69042' data-end-time='74313'>Two siblings, both who smoked, died of lung cancer.</span> <span data-start-time='74313' data-end-time='77250'>Two others died at birth.</span> <span data-start-time='77250' data-end-time='81375'>Her first husband died of heart failure.</span> <span data-start-time='81375' data-end-time='84250'>Then there were the suicides.</span> <span data-start-time='84250' data-end-time='88333'>Two of her three sons shot themselves to death.</span> <span data-start-time='88333' data-end-time='94938'>Her second husband killed himself one Sunday morning while she was still in bed.</span> <span data-start-time='94938' data-end-time='100042'>“I don’t think people have a lot to live for,” hill said.</span> <span data-start-time='100042' data-end-time='104729'>“I really and truly don’t see things getting better.”</span> <span data-start-time='104729' data-end-time='112646'>Dr. Michael Brumage is a public health expert at West Virginia University.</span> <span data-start-time='112646' data-end-time='117917'>He used to run the health department in Charleston, West Virginia.</span> <span data-start-time='117917' data-end-time='124271'>He said, “It seems that the worst outcomes happen here first.”</span> <span data-start-time='124271' data-end-time='135438'>Among the 50 American states, West Virginia has the second- lowest life expectancy, behind only Mississippi.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3040/AD1B692F-A500-4BB4-AB06-25A9BBB2BE8C_cx0_cy5_cw0_w1023_r1_s.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=12166 data-hint-location='69042' 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