The reality is that as medicine advances there are fewer and fewer causes of death.
Cancer has always been there: for the young, especially Children, cancer is no longer the scourge it was.
But for us as we age if there wasn't cancer what would take us?
My first boss, after University, used to say that his ambition was to be shot in the back by a jealous husband at the age of 92.
Not a bad ambition!
He made 92, but his death was a bit more conventional. A great mentor and friend, nevertheless.
