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Don't 1% rich people die of rich people causes?

i.e. Easy and unending access to drugs, and or party related diseases?

Easy and rather unending access to drugs is not that hard to achieve. One might even argue it is easier to achieve as a poor person.

Besides what is a party related disease? Something like an STD, or more akin to a manic episode

Cancer, stroke, dementia; death doesn't care about your numbers, it cares about you

I'd argue that a rich person has more of a reason to develop a severe addiction if the quality of their stuff is more pure and comes with less of a risk

difficulties in life and genetics are more of a reason to decelop a severe addiction. Quality is probably not so much of importance - people still smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol.

It feels like we forgot about the opiod epidemic, meth, crack..

Anyhow, I think this derailed enough. I just wanted to point out the weird protestant views of op.

Prince Rogers Nelson and Michael Jackson both had personal doctors who both played a role in their deaths, with drugs that they gave. Similarly Matthew Perry.

This is not an option for ordinary people.

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