The correlation between age and mortality rates

¶ … people grow older, they become increasingly likely to die. Statistics show that death is more common in older people than it is in younger ones. This is an important subject that should be researched further because controlling aging may be the single most important contributing factor in saving lives.

Introduction great deal of research has been conducted on why people die because it is one of the most potent weaknesses of the human race.

When faced with death, humans are as helpless as any other creature on the planet. The question must be asked: why do people die? Certainly, when a soldier is killed in battle, or when a gas station attendant is shot during a robbery, the cause of death is obvious. However, many people die from what are considered to be natural causes every day. It seems from every day observations that more elderly people are dying than younger people. Upon looking into the statistics, it can be found that in fact there is a correlation between age and death.

Problems statement and significance

The problem in question here is that there is a correlation between age and death rates. As a person grows older, he or she becomes increasingly likely to die. This is a significant issue because everyone is aging. Heart Disease and cancer are both considered to be very serious problems because they affect such a large number of people. However, it seems possible that the deaths caused by these diseases do not compare to the deaths caused by aging! Every person is aging, and therefore everyone is at risk of death. Therefore this is a significant problem that affects everyone.

Goals and objectives

The goal of this project is to show that everyone is getting older and therefore everyone is going to die.

Methods and procedures

In order to collect data, I visited a large local cemetery. I recorded the birth and death dates from all of the headstones. From this data, I did not calculate the average life span, which is usually the procedure. Instead, I calculated the most dangerous time of life based on age. I eliminated anyone who was marked as being in the military because the unnatural death rates of soldiers would have skewed the results.

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