Be careful choosing what you do for a living. It will also determine how you end up dying. For example, it will determine exactly what sort of documents are on your computer screen when you die of a heart attack for reasons unconnected to your job. It will also determine what your obituary says you did with your life, after you die, again from causes unconnected to your job.
We kid. In reality, you’re not going to get an obituary when you die. Also, in reality, many jobs do offer serious dangers, and they’re not ones anyone talks about.
Nuns Have a Higher Chance of Breast Cancer
Back in the 18th century, breast cancer was sometimes called “the nun’s disease,” because of just how many nuns found themselves suffering from it. People didn’t know much of anything about disease back then, but they knew nuns tended to get breast cancer. Indeed, even saying “nun” and “breast” in the same sentence was a sin and resulted in being locked in the stocks, but still, people talked about all the breast cancer nuns kept getting.
Was God punishing nuns, people wondered, for being women? Unlikely, as nuns had a lower chance of experiencing cancers related to the reproductive system, such as cervical cancer. Today, we know one cause of cervical cancer is HPV, which can be sexually transmitted, which explains why it has a lower incidence among nuns. Nuns’ celibacy may also be why they get more breast cancer.