Today, the most immediate cause of stress for many westerners is the human factor.” This sentence comes from a recent essay in the Financial Times. Many diseases have been eradicated, and medical advances now give westerners a good chance of living beyond age 80, says the author, Simon Kuper. So what’s left to worry about?
Terrorists. Active shooters. Psychologically damaged individuals like the German airline pilot who suffered from depression and committed suicide by crashing his plane into a French mountain in March, 2015, killing all 150 people on board.