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Peter Corlett wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2010, at 03:59, David Damerell wrote:
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>> On Saturday, 9 Jan 2010, Peter Corlett wrote:
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>>>> Where do you live, where this procedure is carried out? Because in the UK, where most of us live, motor vehicles remain the principal cause of untimely death.
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>>> No they're not.
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>> The key word is "untimely". From 15 to 35 motor vehicles are the single largest cause of death; furthermore they are obviously strongly represented in causes of death amongst nearby age groups, whose other causes of death tend to vary. Sure, diseases of the elderly kill many more people, but if you're wondering what makes people die young, look at the roads.
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> Wait, keeling over in middle age due to abusing one's body isn't an untimely death? Or perhaps a death is "timely" after one attains the age of 36?
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It's not as untimely as dying in a car crash. There's two senses of
"untimely", the first is to mean "unfortunate timing" which we can
fairly well discount as dying at all is going to be unfortunate timing
for someone. The second is akin to premature - before the proper time.
Assuming the subject is not a mercenary or stuntman dying in an accident
(as opposed to of "natural causes") is always a close fit for this sense
of untimely. Dying in middle age of prolonged self abuse might be viewed
as unsurprising, avoidable and normal to many people. It wouldn't be out
of place to say they died of "natural causes" i.e. timely ones.

Roger.
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