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| | Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death: Death and the Social Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | No longer are most premature deaths caused by the forces of nature (e.g., earthquakes, epidemics, starvation due to drought, or attacks by large predatory animals). |
 | | In 1995, the disease was the leading cause of death in men and women in 79 of 169 American cities with populations greater than 100,000 population. |
 | | Minimizing the death risks--such as through warnings of the health dangers of cigarettes, lowering auto speed limits, and using antibiotics to control infectious diseases-- increases the predictability of death, confining it to the old. |
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