Suicide is a top ten cause of death across all decades except the first, with the nature of accidents changing significantly with age.

“even though most of my energy focuses on three things atherosclerosis cancer and neurodegenerative disease the only disease that shows up in every single decade is a top ten cause of death outside of the first decade so birth to nine is suicide accidents do as well and butBut but I think the suicide thing but but the nature of accidents by the way changes so much from beginning to end that it's a very different you know in other words the accidents that kill you know thirty year olds and forty year olds are quite different from the accidents that kill 80 year olds and 90 year olds”