but death is really the least of the problems with stroke because most people with strokes don't die but most people with strokes are disabled so what people typically fear most about stroke is not that they're gonna die from it but it's going to be disabling and that they're going to wind up in a nursing home or not be able to do the things that they like to do before because of the injury to the brain stroke continues to be very common it's become a little bit less common because of the treatments that we've had for risk factors particularly