Apparently this is what Sinead O’Connor died of, it’s just been announced. But how is a 56 year old just dying in any way natural in this day and age?
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56 is well below average. However, average is exactly what it says: it is the average, when you add up all of the deaths that come younger and all of the deaths that come older and then divide it back out by how many people there are.
Average doesn’t mean that everyone comes into the world with a body that is likely to make it that many years.
I’m not sure how old you are, but I was in my late 20s when my peers’ parents started dying of natural causes. I was in my 30s when some of my peers started to experience lifethreatening health conditions like cancer, stroke, and heart disease. These all begin to become common causes of death when people reach their 50s–yes, many of us will make to our 70s and beyond, but many of us WON’T. You get the average by adding all of the deaths up, and many of them will fall earlier than the average. That’s how averages work.
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