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Nicola Coughlan Is Right: Why Nuns Lead Longer, Healthier Lives
The Bridgerton star is onto something.
In a recent episode of Waitrose’s Dish podcast, Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan said that she used to check Rip.ie (an Irish site which tracks and publishes deaths) in her previous work at an optician’s.
She said many of the people who came into her shop were older, and she found out some had sadly passed away when ringing about missed appointments. So, she devised a system of checking the site and noting who had passed instead.
But she noticed an anomaly. “We got a lot of nuns,” she said in a viral Instagram clip. “So you’d be like, Sister Ignatius, born 1932... I started... in my head, guessing if people were dead,” and checking the site in anticipation.
“They were always........