CNN.com reports of a study on AVERAGE LITERARY LIFE SPANS among poets, playwrights and writers. The results? Haiku holds the threat of death
Write prose live longer
Poets 62
Playwrights 63
Novelists 66
Nonfictionwriters 68
Source: Journal of Death Studies
Read the article: http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/04/22/poet.deaths.reut/index.html
Thanks to Pauly for tipping me about this without consent.