‘Does a Man Shorten his Life by Insuring It?’, Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine (1856)

The Evening Post publishes an interesting article on Life Insurance; a question that, like most others, has two sides. There are reasons, in the view of our cotempory, for believing that insurance of this kind, with all its advantages, creates what Jeremy Bentham ¹ calls, “sinister interests,” unfavorable to the longevity of the insured. The Post says:–