COVID has been a leading cause of death this past year, but what else are Americans dying from? And should we take similar precautions to avoid those deaths? Given that everyone dies, is there an "ideal" way to do so?

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:00 Background / Motivation

2:58 Description of CDC charts

4:06 Categories of Deaths tracked by CDC

12:01 Deaths by age group, starting with childhood

15:00 Death counts vs. Deaths per capita

16:20 Cancer Death Rates

17:18 Heart Disease

22:00 Coronavirus Deaths

24:56 Desireable causes of death

31:31 Euthanasia and assisted suicide

34:08 Legality of euthanasia

38:05 Choosing how to die

40:20 Death rate changes over the past 20 years

42:53 Outro

References:

https://wisqars-viz.cdc.gov:8006/lcd/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_the_United_States

Credits:

Recorded in Lebanon, NH, February 20, 2021

Posted online April 11, 2021

Performance, writing, research -- Jerod, Tim

Production, editing -- Juliana

Website -- Juliana, Tim

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