Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by averagewall on Thursday July 20, 2017 @12:01AM
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Everybody dies from something so there'll always be a top cause of death. I think we accept diseases of old age like heart disease and cancer as an inevitable part of being human. Sure it'd be nice to cure them. It'd also be nice to have immortality.
You could go further and say brain death is the leading cause of death, affecting 100% of Americans. Let's put more effort into transferring our consciousness into computers so we can survive it! Again, it would be nice but seems tolerable to carry on as we are.
Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by dehue on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @06:40PM
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I believe at least one of the reasons why those are given more attention is because they are more likely to affect younger people and they seem more preventable. As opposed to cancer and heart disease which are more likely to kill older people and often develop over a lifetime.
Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by cmurphycode on Thursday July 20, 2017 @08:53AM
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Yeah, I think that's definitely part of it.
https://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@sop/@smd...
http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-dea...
Actually, it is the opposite. Gun violence, opioid crisis, etc are given too much attention.
The deaths of opioid crisis and gun deaths are minuscule compared to the deaths cause by obesity, sedentary lifestyle, cancer, heart disease, etc.
Take the top two killers in america - heart disease and cancer ( about 600K deaths each ) vs gun violence + opioid crisis ( about 30K each ).
Heart disease by itself kill 10X more people than gun violence and opioid crisis combined.