The Top Stories in People's Lives

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Amid all the headline-making events of the past year, it’s easy to forget that the big occurrences in people’s lives tend to be the ones that happen close to home. A study by the MetLife Mature Market Institute offers a reminder of this.

One section of its poll of 45-74-year-olds (fielded last summer and fall) looked at some of the “trigger events” that significantly affect a person’s life. Twenty-one percent of respondents said they’d experienced the death of someone close to them during the year before being polled.

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