Link:https://marypatcampbell.substack.com/p/mortality-nuggets-videos-on-suicide
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- I highlighted a few of the cause-of-death trends. In particular, COVID (which, obviously, is biased more towards the old), and external causes of death: homicide, suicide, and accidents (which includes drug overdoses and motor vehicle accidents).
- There are basically too many things going on in this graph, so there aren’t a lot of good choices for either me or the SOA. What I did was to pick four of the data series to highlight with data labels, as noted above (and I also slapped one data label on dementia for the oldest age group, just because). I am in the middle of a series going through how that external causes of death changed in 2020 — in particular, accidents and homicides went up, and really affected mortality for adults under age 45, plus male teens.
- Yeah, check out heart disease and cancer (bottom of the graph). Ain’t old age great?
Author(s): Mary Pat Campbell
Publication Date: 6 Feb 2022
Publication Site: STUMP at substack