Our world is a frightening place. When a child is born, both parents wishes for their offspring to live and reach old age. Clearly, we all are going to die at some time in the future, but we prefer to be in good health and die in our old age. None us wishes to die prematurely from cancer, or a stroke, or be hit by a car. This is obvious.
Nonetheless, there are countless reasons why people die before their time. Many of those reasons are natural in origin (diseases, viruses, bacteria), but many are man-made (pollutants, car accidents), and most – quite ironically, the major causes of death – are literally a result of our very own choices (smoking, obesity, alcohol drinking).
Perhaps surprisingly, the most common cause of death worldwide is smoking. This is literally a thing that each one of us can avoid, and by doing so, significantly improve our health and live longer. Not to mention that by doing so, we alsoraise our budget and protect our offspring from the damage we cause to them.
In our site, Cause of Death, we identify the top causes of death and elaborate, quite thoroughly, the 6 most common reasons people die prematurely.
Furthermore, we offer useful guidelines that could help people to prevent these early deaths. Our goal is, literally, to get people to live longer. Hey, even if a single person changes her lifestyle as a result of our guidelines and lives longer, then our mission has been accomplished. It is as the Talmud says: “To save one life is as if you have saved the world”. We think so too.