Our world is a frightening place. When a child is born, both parents wishes for their offspring to grow peacefully and reach old age. Obviously, we all are going to die eventually, but we prefer to be in excellent health and die in our old age. None us wishes to die prematurely from breast cancer, or a stroke, or be hit by an automobile. This is obvious.

Unfortunately, there are an infinite number of reasons why people die before their time. Many of those reasons are natural in origin (diseases, viruses, bacteria), but many are man-made (pollutants, car accidents), and most – quite ironically, the major causes of death – are literally a result of our very own choices (smoking, obesity, alcohol drinking).

Perhaps surprisingly, the most common cause of death worldwide is smoking. This is literally something that each one of us can avoid, and by doing so, dramatically improve our health and live longer. Not to mention that by doing so, we alsoincrease our budget and protect our children from the damage we cause to them.

In our site, Cause of Death, we survey the top causes of death and elaborate, quite thoroughly, the six most common reasons people die prematurely.

Furthermore, we offer useful guidelines that could help people to avoid these untimely deaths. Our goal is, quite literally, to get people to live longer. Hey, even if one person changes her lifestyle as a result of our advice and lives longer, then our mission has been achieved. It is as the Talmud says: “To save one life is as if you have saved the world”. We think so too.