What do people die of?

[emperor]

An interesting article from the BBC, including maps of cause of death, stratified by age, across the UK.

I think the interesting thing is what the reporter says right at the very end about what people actually die of, as opposed to what government policy thinks is a cause of death worth spending money on preventing.

Comments

[naath.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, they do. Unfortunately locking people up and saying "you are too stupid to be allowed to decide whether you want to go on living" is in fact not nice; is in fact a disgusting infringement on people's rights as people.

We do need to have better provision for getting help to people who want help, certainly - but I don't think that "forcibly prevent people from killing themselves" is anything even close to a good idea.