We are now ready to crunch some numbers. I assume that our conquest of disease will be total, leaving only accidents, suicides, and homicides as causes of death. I further assume that suicide is a treatable disease process, and eliminate that as a cause of death. Public Health Service, Washington. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986.
Death rate varies with age.
The two major factors seem to be experience and infirmity. The curve bottoms out at the 40-44 year age group. I also ignore the lower death rates for children and teenagers. And the number is, . . . This is not a large fraction of accidents.