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Risk (a chance of an adverse event) of death always approaches 100% given enough time. Eventually the set of all possible events that can happen to you is smaller and smaller, and proportionally more of the probability space is occupied by events that lead to your death.

Who said anything about adverse?

Every person alive will die, 100% chance.

I understand the point of the article and the hundreds of other like it proclaiming coffee or red wine or friends reduce the “risk of death.” They mean to say reduces the number of test subjects who died during the study period. Nothing reduces the risk, though. We all die.

In cancer care by convention they look at 5 year survival rates.

I know. The headline is still wrong. Aspirin may improve one’s chance of living more than five years with cancer. Everyone will die, with or without cancer, with or without aspirin.

Risk of death eventually 100%.

What kind of cake?

Probability of death of an individual is on average 100%.

Edit: honestly, how autistic can one be to vote this down? lol

probability of death of an individual is under 100%, as not everyone is dead yet.