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Causes of Death

Byscientist

If you’re a billionaire, then you’ve got a lot of wealth and access to our resources. However, what you do not have is access to additional years of your life.There has been a wonderful Substack post about how billionaires die. It turns out that most of the death is due to aging and unspecified reasons, but the second has been illnesses and a substantial proportion has also been Cancer. Cardiovascular shows up prominently, but others like Neuro-degenerative and respiratory do not show up as much. In addition, there are other causes due to accidents, but not significant.

Look up the substack post.

https://strygin.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-die?triedRedirect=true

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