November 23rd 2009 How to Live Longer: A Survey of the Major Causes of Death Worldwide
The world is a scary place to live in. When a boy or a girl is born, both parents wishes for their offspring to grow peacefully and reach old age. Obviously, we all are going to die eventually, but we prefer to be in excellent health and die in our old age. None us wishes to die before our time from cancer, or a stroke, or be hit by an automobile. This is obvious.
Unfortunately, there are too many reasons why people die before their time. Many of those reasons are natural in origin (diseases, viruses, bacteria), but many are man-made (pollutants, car accidents), and most - quite ironically, the biggest 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 definitely a thing that we can all avoid, and by doing so, significantly improve our health and live longer. Not to mention that by doing so, we alsoincrease our budget and shield our children from the damage we cause to them.
In our site, Cause of Death, we identify the top causes of death and elaborate, in detail, the six most common reasons people die prematurely.
Furthermore, we offer practical advice that could help our readers to prevent these untimely deaths. Our goal is, literally, to get our readers to live longer. Hey, even if a single person changes his or her lifestyle as a result of our website and lives longer, then our mission has been successfully accomplished. It is as the Talmud says: “To save one life is as if you have saved the world”. We think so too.