I'm a little fixated on death at the moment. Wonder what that's all about. When it comes to data collection, people aren't allowed to die of old age. Nope. There has to be a reason. It's so typical of our culture that official data collection treats death as something that went wrong rather than a natural outcome of being alive.
Neither should "infirmity" or "senescence" appear as a cause of death, according to the CDC handbook on how properly to fill out a death certificate. Why? These words "have little value for public health or medical research," the agency says. Plus, "Age is recorded elsewhere on the [death] certificate."
Via
NYT
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