Do Christian Scientists live as long as the rest of us?

Factual Questions
1

This (poorly worded) question was inspired by a cartoon in the May 1 issue of The New Yorker. A guy at an informal social, chatting with a couple of folks says:

“I couldn’t afford health insurance so I became a Christian Scientist.”

If these folks don’t seek out the kind of medical help that most of us do when we get sick, do they tend to die sooner?

2

Simpson, WF (1989) Comparative longevity in a college cohort of Christian Scientists. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 262,12, 1657-1658.

According to this study, no.

And it gets grimmer:
Asser, SM and Swan, R. (1997) Child Fatalities From Religion-motivated Medical Neglect. Pediatrics, 101, 4, 625-629.

Their children die needlessly, too.

3

Just to be clear, when I say that, I mean “No, Christian Scientists do not live as long as non-Christian Scientists.”