As you say George .... when you look at the age pyramid for the UK the bulk of people now live into old age and many, if not most, of the old killer diseases have been blunted ... I guess as the mass killers are ticked off more people will die of things that were disregarded before .... if someone dies at 98 and a coroner notes air polution as a contributory cause then we're not doing too bad!
K
