The vast majority of traffic deaths are preventable. Whether we’re willing to accept that as a goal and make the changes needed to achieve that goal remains to be seen. Industrial accidents, and cancer from smoking are both preventable, and thankfully have been declining due to prevention efforts. Reducing pollution, fixing food supply issues, and making healthcare more available can prevent many many unnecessary deaths. It certainly is worth trying to prevent some of the dumb ways to die we’ve added since losing whatever traditions we lost. Having family & friends die old from natural causes is more psychologically endurable than when people die young from something that could have been avoided, right?
