Originally Posted by
EyeKhan
Tabulating why/how someone died seems to be wrapped up, quite a lot, in blame. Unhealthy living, reckless behavior, live by the sword, die by the sword sort of stuff...
EDIT:
And safety. Knowing why people die, or get injured, has probably been helping humans live long enough to breed for a couple hundred thousand years. Evolution ==> Modern Disaster Reporting.
And why, really why, do we die? Everyone dies. If you avoid accidental death and you live on into post-breeding years, well, you get in the way of follow-on generations. And there have to be many generations, over some reasonable stretch of time, with plenty of room and resources to thrive, or evolution won't work. So the species needs the individuals to die off in order to survive, that's the Big Why. The little whys, they're the injustices, the neglect, bad luck and horrors, the crushing losses. But they're all wrapped up in one way or another, somehow, into the Big Why. We die because we have to, eventually, somehow.