The untimely death of single guys is increasingly becoming alarming in our nation. The recent death of some of Davido's buddies is just a tip of the iceberg. Lot of isolated and unannounced death of many single guys spread across the nation and that is something to worry about.

It is common knowledge that men die early when compared with their female counterpart. Globally speaking men have lower life expectation span than that of women. For instance, according to the World Health Organisation report, adult male in Nigeria have a life expectation rate of about 45-50 years while adult female have life expectation rate of about 55-60 years.

The problem of early death of single guys, men, husbands and fathers is that it denies men the chance of enjoying the fruit of their labour. Some men die shortly after obtaining academic degree, some few weeks to their marriage or couple of weeks after marriage, some leave for the beyond after building their home, they never live long to enjoy the labour of their sweat.

Some men pass on before their children graduate from higher institutions, and lots of fathers never attend any of their children's wedding because they died before their children got married.

It is quite sad to find mothers around while their children are celebrating important events in their lives while the fathers who toil all the days of their lives providing for the children and wife unfortunately are not alive to witness the celebration of their children's success.

Even here on Nairaland there are threads on Scarcity of Husbands, or Scarcity of Men. The truth is that lots of single guys are dying early, untimely death among single men is creating problem for ladies that are supposed to be married to them. Am sure Tagbo's girlfriend will have to start all over, not to mention the emotional pain she must go through at the demise of her deceased lover.

Honestly speaking, i think we men need to start thinking of how to live longer and enjoy the fruit of our hustle, we men should stop living for the moment and think of the future.

You see One major factor that I believe is causing this early death among men is what i call wrong mindset. Wrong mindset are ideologies and lifestyle that destroys the opportunity of living a long and healthy life.

For instance the scourge of substance abuse that is running wild among Nigerians especially single guys is one major problem that needs to be tackled early. It is no news that lots of guys abuse Codeine, Tramadol and many other lethal drugs for whatever reason they use them.

Speaking to pharmacist about the implication of abusing such drugs his response was that it the damaging effect tells when the abuser reaches their forties or fifties. At that time the bones will have suffered serious damage such that it will no longer be able to provide the needed stamina and strength. Which simply means that most of those folks abusing such drugs will have a hard time moving around even eating may become difficult because the teeth too might have dropped out of the gum considering the fact that they are too weak to remain intact.

Guys Let's talk about this issue, what causes this ugly trend and what is the way out? How can we help ourselves in ensuring that we live long to witness life events of our children and live to see our grand children.

Those deaths you used as parameter to arrive at your conclusion were not natural. They died 'cause they were living their lives unchecked. You don't make such conclusions on such basis...I've no idea that young guys have been dying of late.

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Benita27:
Those deaths you used as parameter to arrive at your conclusion were not natural. They died 'cause they were living their lives unchecked. You don't make such conclusions on such basis...I've no idea that young guys have been dying of late.

@Benita27 that you have no idea that young male guys have been dying Of late does not mean that they are not passing on. Like I stated earlier, those deaths are scattered and isolated, and it unfortunate we do not have a national database of that takes care of such issue. If Nigerians report death of relations to the right authority you will be amazed at the rate single guys are passing on.

That said, I will accept your view that living an "unchecked" life is a contributor to early death among men.

First of all, There are no Scarcity of Husbands nor Scarcity of Men. The economy is hard & cost of living is so high right now. A lot of men in their 30's are still struggling financially. So that has nothing to with why people are dying.

Globally speaking men have lower life expectation span than that of women. For sure, So thats not an issue.

People are dying untimely generally, you are not just noticing the female folks who are also dying.

Tagbo's death was a stupid one, he lived a reckless life. So you can't be using him in your example.

The only issue that was valid is the implication of drugs such as Codeine, Tramadol etc But then are you ready to raise awareness about this issue?

truthsayer009:
First of all, There are no Scarcity of Husbands nor Scarcity of Men. The economy is hard & cost of living is so high right now. A lot of men in their 30's are still struggling financially. So that has nothing to with why people are dying.

Globally speaking men have lower life expectation span than that of women. For sure, So thats not an issue.

People are dying untimely generally, you are not just noticing the female folks who are also dying.

Tagbo's death was a stupid one, he lived a reckless life. So you can't be using him in your example.

The only issue that was valid is the implication of drugs such as Codeine, Tramadol etc But then are you ready to raise awareness about this issue?

The write up did not in any way say men die because of economic challenges. like you rightly stated Tagbo's death was as a result of what I will call dangerous living. But then lots of guys live dangerous life.

The major cause of death among men is smoking and drinking.