All the people I have attended a death bed vigil over the years, died of cancer. That is 100% of normal deaths anecdotally.
Premature deaths were from suicide, the greatest contributor, followed by road accidents!

As always we see bureaucrats trying to overstate their importance in the delivery of taxpayer funded public health which as a first consequence of being centralized and collated, becomes around 30% more expensive than it needs be? Which probably applies to universal medicare?

I believe we were better served when individual responsibility and means tested public health and not for profit member's health insurance was the order of the day?

Any improvement on that is linked to regional health care, where the local administrators know best their needs and those of their community!

As for funding? We need a benchmarked best practice comparative outcome, then allocate money from a single bucket of finite money on a pro rata head count? So that the bulk of a finite bucket of money is directed at coalface health care outcomes, rather than entirely redundant bean counting statistical data gathering? Which could be downloaded to a mainframe central computer as standard practise for better record keeping? Essential for pro rata funding and access to ongoing funding!

Thus dealing the largely redundant book keepers out of the equation!? What's bad for means tested public health is the layers of duplication and ineffective costly administration, making critical health care funding decisions, for which they as a group are singularly unqualified to make!

When it comes to effective number crunching there are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't!
Alan B.

More people getting cancer because we are living longer, perhaps? Not enough research onto the cause of cancer? There is smoking and drinking, of course, but we are now have such a careless lifestyle, any number of things could be killing us. Although my cousin recently died of a heart attack, plus a stroke, and his death certificate will show that, we all know that the certificate should read 'drank himself to death', because that's what caused his ailments. Cancer of this, cancer of that, but what caused the cancer?

On the other hand, nature is much stronger than we are (something the climate change alarmists don't know), and there has to be a method to thin out and limit the number of people contributing to the burgeoning population.

1. An issue this excellent article did not mention is:

The "Bad News" is men who reach 85 may well be told they have Prostate Cancer.

But the "Good News" is they won't die from this cancer - they'll die from some other illness (or plain old age) first.

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2. "If you imagine that everyone who dies remains in the population as a zombie (a non-hostile one!)..."

Yes, I've always suspected this about friends, acquaintances, ex-wives, etc.