Even during intense arguments, couples with pets tend to have lower blood pressures, and at the argument's end, their heart rates return to normal faster. Sometimes it's as much as three seconds before. One in twenty adults is having sex at least every other day. The average adult has sex about once a week, and one in five has been celibate for at least one year.
Frequent sex is highest among politically liberal extremists.
Catholics are more active than Protestants, but both are less active than Jews or agnostics. Those surveyed said that wanted a comprehensive program of care in which physicians, nurses, counselors, and other professionals keep them pain-free, comfortable, and alert at home, while emotional and other support is given to family members. This service, known as hospice care, was the choice of almost one-half million people in 1997. Hospice is not a place, but a service of caring that bring to the home comfort and support to people in the final stages of terminal illness. Hospice is available when a patient no longer responds to curative treatment.