Our world is a scary place. When a boy or a girl is born, every parent wishes for the newborn to live and reach old age. Obviously, we all are going to die eventually, but we prefer to be in the best health and die in our old age. None us wishes to die before our time from breast cancer, or a stroke, or be hit by a car. This is obvious.
Unfortunately, there are an infinite number of reasons why people die before prematurely. Many of those reasons are natural in origin (diseases, viruses, bacteria), but many are man-made (pollutants, car accidents), and most – ironically, the major causes of death – are literally affected by our very own choices (smoking, obesity, alcohol drinking).
Perhaps surprisingly, the most common cause of death worldwide is smoking. This is literally something that we can all avoid, and by doing so, significantly change our health and live longer. Not to mention that by doing so, we alsoraise our budget and protect our children from the damage we cause to them.
In our site, Cause of Death, we classify the top causes of death and describe, quite thoroughly, the six most common reasons people die prematurely.
Furthermore, we offer useful advice that could help our readers to avoid these early deaths. Our goal is, literally, to get our readers 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 achieved. It is as the Talmud says: “To save one life is as if you have saved the world”. We think so too.