This is a really interesting analysis; as it shapes (and reflects) how society thinks about death and illness… and violence, etc. It seems that “aging” as a key and malleable factor in death has a long way to go before it gets appropriate levels of attention.
Karl suggests: Age-related diseases caused 75+% of deaths but were <25% of news.
Source: https://x.com/KarlPfleger/status/1706742960640098505?s=20
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Move along, nothing to see here.
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KarlT
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Great chart. Amazing Heart disease vs terrorism comparison.
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How to save your life next week (How to avoid the most common accidental deaths).
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Thanks. This is a useful reminder. I particularly like the “drive the speed limit” advice. I also got this as a trick for lowering my time spent in sympathetic activation (lowering my HRV). It is hard to do but I feel the positive effects more powerfully than every supplement or chemical i ingest other than rapa (bad feeling), caffeine (good feeling), and methylene blue (good feeling)
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The news (as the name suggests) is about things that are new or at least unusual. Dying from old age isn’t news.
More generally, the news isn’t about showing the world as it is. It’s about telling people things they might be interested in. It isn’t a good way to get an idea of the way the world works.
Remember:
For an ordinary person, no news is good news. For the media, good news is not news. 
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Eh well homicide and suicide aren’t new or unusual either, but they make the news. If it bleeds, it leads!
KarlT
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Very few people think about risk vs reward in their day to day lives.
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If it is homicide in a dramatic way or suicide of someone famous, yep. I thought of including the bleeds quote too, it is apropos.
The news can report facts exactly, but it is a curated collection & as such, doesn’t give an overall view of the world that is necessarily super accurate.
FWIW, if the goal is to get people to want to have resources applied to anti-aging research, maybe stimulating controversy might be a good way to help. That would get the idea that there is an opportunity into people’s minds & thus, perhaps provide impetus for supporting it.
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